Jon Seidel reports that NullCrew member Timothy J. French pleaded guilty this morning in federal court in Chicago. NullCrew’s attacks on Bell Canada, University of Virginia, Spokeo, Comcast, and other entities have been covered in the past on this site (search NullCrew), and many of NullCrew’s “Fuck the System!” newsletters and YouTube videos remain available online. During one…
Month: December 2015
Blog of News Site “The Independent” Hacked, Leads to TeslaCrypto Ransomware
Joseph C. Chen reports: NOTE: This is a developing story. Please watch this space for updates as we continue to dig into the technical details of this attack. The blog page of one of the leading media sites in the United Kingdom, “The Independent” has been compromised, which may put its millions of readers at risk of getting…
Lawsuit: Former employee used computer program to steal trade secrets from Virginia Beach company
Scott Daugherty reports: A Virginia Beach construction company claims a former employee stole trade secrets earlier this year and provided them to a competitor. Unlike most such cases, however, officials with Atlantic Marine Construction Company aren’t arguing the employee stole their proposal sheets and other records before he was fired. Rather, the company claims Christopher…
UK: NexusMods reports database breach
Chris Scott Barr reports: Nexus Mods announced that they had a potential database breach. The breach includes information for about 6 million users, but there’s good news. The database that was breached was last updated on July 22nd, 2013. So if you’ve registered for an account after that date, you’re probably safe. Also, if you’ve…
Wetherspoons Hacker Speaks: ‘I Did It Simply Because I Could’
Joseph Cox reports: Last week, Wetherspoons, a popular UK pub chain, announced that one of its websites had been breached. The hacker got away with the names, dates of birth, email addresses, and phone numbers of potentially 656,723 customers, as well as the partial payment card data of 100 people. Then late on Monday night, the hacker responsible,…
MaineGeneral Health notifying employees and patients after FBI alerts them to breach
A message from Chuck Hays, CEO, MaineGeneral Health December 8, 2015 Dear Valued Community Member: MaineGeneral Health and its subsidiaries (MaineGeneral Medical Center, MaineGeneral Rehabilitation and Long Term Care, MaineGeneral Retirement Community and MaineGeneral Community Care) have learned it has had a cyber attack on its computer network. On November 13, 2015, MaineGeneral was notified…