Joseph Cox reports: …. In a previous interview with Motherboard, the hacker who dumped details about 20,000 Federal Bureau of Investigation and 9,000 Department of Homeland Security employees claimed he had also downloaded around 200GB of internal government files. A number of other hacked files have been obtained by Motherboard, and include apparent digital forensics reports from…
Month: February 2016
Departing Employee Taking Data from “Restricted” but Unsecured Folder Doesn’t Violate CFAA
Shawn E. Tuma writes: When an employer intends to keep a network folder restricted from employees, but fails to (1) objectively communicate this intention or (2) secure the folder from general access, an employee who accesses the folder and takes data from it does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), even if he does…
Iranian man pleads not guilty in bank fraud of South Mississippi customers
Robin Fitzgerald reports: An Iranian national whose cybercrime victims include three South Mississippi banks and thousands of its customers flew to New York after winning a lottery that allowed him to obtain a U.S. permanent resident visa, a federal agent’s affidavit said. Milad Rezaei Kalantari, 30, is suspected of operating websites known as carding forums,…
Ex-employee of Yahoo’s Forex broker YJFX stole clients’ data
Maria Nikolova of LeapRate reports that retail Forex broker YJFX, a subsidiary of Yahoo Japan Corporation, recently reported that a former employee stole more than 180,000 pieces of information about YJFX clients. The information ranged from transactions details to names of the clients and their bank account data. The information taken by the former employee had reportedly been stored…
“Cracka” arrested by U.K. police? (Updated)
William Turton reports that “Cracka” has been arrested: A 15-year-old boy was arrested in the East Midlands, England, on Tuesday, for allegedly hacking the personal email account of the CIA director and releasing the personal information of 11,000 government agents. The hacker known as “cracka” was arrested on multiple counts of suspicion of conspiracy to commit unauthorized…
Dragon Nest MMO loses two years of player data
Matthew Humphries writes: Massively-multiplayer online games are one of the most difficult games to get right and keep running. Each game needs enough players to cover the costs of renting the servers required to run it, while at the same time there’s a constant demand for new content while keeping the whole system safe and…