Talk Talk hack: Co Antrim schoolboy suing Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and The...
Remember when I expressed surprise on Twitter that The Telegraph, a UK publication, actually named this kid? Within hours, the publication silently deleted it, but there’s been so much reported online...
View ArticleMO: Business Owner Pleads Guilty After Customers’ Information is Stolen in...
Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced yesterday that a former business owner in Sparta, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in allowing...
View ArticleInvestigation continues into Cardinals’ hacking of Astros system
Evan Drellich reports: Now that the offseason has arrived, the fall and/or winter likely will bring an update in some form from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas on the criminal...
View ArticleTen Charged in $11.1 Million Tax Refund Fraud Conspiracy
A federal grand jury returned a 14-count indictment, unsealed yesterday, charging 10 defendants with conspiracy, theft of government funds, and aggravated identity theft. The defendants are: Ja’Baree...
View ArticleFour Winds Casino Resort Payment Card Breach Went On For One Year
From their statement yesterday: Four Winds Casino Resort values the relationship it has with its guests and understands the importance of protecting payment card information. On October 2, 2015, Four...
View ArticleFormer Home Depot Employees Sentenced to Prison for ID Theft Scheme
There’s a follow-up to a breach previously noted on this site. Paulette Shorter and Lakisha Grimes have been sentenced to federal prison for stealing personal identifying information from fellow...
View ArticleFL: Three People Sentenced in Tax Refund Fraud Scheme That Used Patient Data
There’s a follow-up to a breach previously noted on this site. Jermaine Winters, 39, of Coleman, Florida, Senora Cotton, 24, of Chipley, Florida, and Rosetta Presley, 23, of Chipley, Florida, were...
View ArticleData from the TalkTalk data breach up for sale – Daily Mail
Posted while maintaining what I think is an appropriate level of skepticism… Ben Ellery and Jaber Mohamed, who continue to report as if the dark web is something new, report that they are in contact...
View ArticleAustralian Federal Police declined to investigate hack and ransom demand?
More on the Aussie Farmers Direct breach previously noted on this site. Ryan DeSouza reports that a six-figure ransom had been demanded after the hack, and when the firm refused to pay, 5,000...
View ArticleWe talked to people close to the TalkTalk hack before the arrests began — and...
Rob Price reports on interviews with some of those suspected of, or claiming to, have participated in the TalkTalk hack. You can read it all on Business Insider.
View ArticleFeds Never Charged the Real Hacker in the Matthew Keys Case
Kim Zetter reports: Former Reuters social media editor Matthew Keys is facing up to 25 years in prison after his conviction last month on conspiracy charges related to a 2010 hack of the Los Angeles...
View ArticleAlleged NullCrew hacker has bond revoked
This time it’s accurate. Alleged NullCrew member and hacker Timothy French has had his bond revoked for violating its terms by using his laptop and connecting to the Internet. He was caught because he...
View ArticleExperian Posts $20M Charge Related to T-Mobile Data Breach
Diana Goovaerts reports: In its earnings report for the six months ended September 30, 2015, Experian posted a charge of $20 million stemming from its response to an October security breach that...
View ArticleTalkTalk hack could cost firm £35 million
BBC reports: The cyber-attack on TalkTalk could cost it up to £35m in one-off costs, the company has said. Following the hack, which divulged some users’ financial details, all customers of the...
View ArticleGoogle, Apple Remove InstaAgent App Due To Password Snooping
Lord Marin writes: Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) have removed InstaAgent, an app for Instagram, because of its malicious behaviour. It was storing and sending the passwords of its...
View ArticleMassive Hack of 70 Million Prisoner Phone Calls Indicates Violations of...
Jordan Smith and Micah Lee report: An enormous cache of phone records obtained by The Intercept reveals a major breach of security at Securus Technologies, a leading provider of phone services inside...
View ArticleFastMail falls over as web service extortionists widen attacks and up their...
Although the DDoS attack and extortion demand made on ProtonMail was the first to draw a lot of media attention – possibly because ProtonMail paid the demand – Hushmail, Runbox, Zoho, and VFEMail were...
View ArticleHacker claims Comcast breach linked to unpatched Zimbra vulnerability noted...
There’s a new claim in the Comcast breach first reported by Steve Ragan. Darren Pauli reports that a hacker claiming responsibility for the breach notes that it was NullCrew’s hack and taunting of...
View ArticleUK: Hacker jailed for eight months after attacking police, council, charity...
Liverpool Echo reports: A jobless computer hacker was jailed today for eight months after launching a mass cyber attack on The Met Police, Tory Party and British Airways websites – from his bedroom in...
View ArticleMoD-founded firm Niteworks loses login creds of UK defence folk
Alexander J. Martin reports: Exclusive Terrible infosec practices at Niteworks, the MoD-established business networking organisation, have led to unknown attackers gaining email addresses and passwords...
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