Joseph Cox reports: An alleged email apparently shows one employee explicitly telling staff not to warn customers the company was hacked. Tens of thousands of people are in the dark. Motherboard recently reported hackers had targeted two companies that sell spyware to the everyday consumer—Retina-X and FlexiSpy. Hackers made off with a mix of over…
Month: April 2017
Ashley Madison blackmailers threaten to create Cheater’s Gallery exposing members who don’t pay up
Graham Cluley reports: Blackmailers are once again trying to make money out of the notorious Ashley Madison hack, which exposed the details of registered members of the cheating website in 2015. Robin Harris writes on ZDNet that he has received a blackmail threat, alerting him that unless he pays up $500 worth of Bitcoin his…
UPSA Sacks 22 Students For Hacking for Grade Manipulation Scheme
The University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) has sacked 22 of its students who hacked into the school’s computer system to manipulate their results. A notice of dismissal from the university said it took the decision after meeting on the issue at an emergency meeting on Wednesday, 15th February, 2017 by the Academic Board. The…
Wellington Student Arrested for Selling Drugs on the Darknet
Dennis writes: A young man with big ambitions for the darknet world has reached his dead end. James Winstanley, a 22-year old man from Wellington, New Zealand is a highly talented and skillful computer science student at the Victoria University. He used his unusual genius to get himself in trouble. Together with two of his…
$2.5 million settlement because draft policies and plans were neither finalized nor implemented before laptop theft
A recent HHS settlement that included a relatively small monetary penalty, $31,000, didn’t seem to get a lot of media attention. Maybe today’s announced settlement stemming from a laptop theft that resulted in a steep monetary penalty will get attention? From HHS: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), has announced…
Blowout Cards Notifies Customers After Card Fraud Reports Roll In
On April 19, a user calling themself “ForceChange77” posted an inquiry on a Blowout Cards forum: Not sure where to put this, but I ordered something from Blowout in January. Used a credit card that I rarely use – only other place I use is NYTimes subscription. Somebody got the card number and started charging…