Update2: Brian Krebs has a great post criticizing those who reported on DirectDefense’s claims without waiting for a response from Cb. Sadly, this site is also guilty of that by just citing and linking to others’ reporting without doing any verification. Original Post: From the this-can’t-be-good dept., Catalin Cimpanu reports: Sensitive corporate data from customers…
Month: August 2017
Aadhaar e-kyc app had 88,000 downloads: Cyber police
Rajiv Kalkod reports: The cyber crime police investigating the alleged theft of Aadhaar data by IIT grad Abhinav Srivastava, 31, found that the Aadhaar e-kyc app he developed had been downloaded by over 88,000 people from Google PlayStore. During the initial investigation, police said the app had been downloaded 40,000 times between January and July this…
HBO Hackers Dump Game of Throne Scripts, Another Episode, and Confidential Corporate Files
“If history repeats itself, HBO may NEVER be the same Again. Winter Really is here” HB-Old is Dying……. — From an Email from the HBO Hackers This evening, the hackers who grabbed headlines last week by announcing their hack of HBO, released more files and more evidence of how thoroughly they may have ransacked some…
Man Who Hacked his Former Employer Gets 18-Month Prison Sentence
Dark Reading reports: A federal court sentenced a Tennessee man to an 18-month prison sentence and ordered him to pay $172,394 in restitution, following his breach into a former employer’s network and copying of emails in order to give his new company a competitive edge, according to the US Department of Justice. Jason Needham, 45,…
Italian bank UniCredit admits data breaches affecting 400,000 customers
Luke Irwin reports: UniCredit, Italy’s largest bank, has admitted that it suffered two data breaches in the past year, affecting 400,000 customers in total. In a statement, the bank confirmed that no passwords were stolen in the attacks, which occurred between September and October of 2016 and then June and July this year. UniCredit did…
Turkish hackers attack Armenian webpages again
Public Radio of Armenia reports: Turkish hackers continue to attack the Armenian virtual territory, Artsakhpress reports. Supporting Azerbaijani hackers, Turkish hackers have attacked seven Armenian websites, information security expert Samvel Martirosyan said. “Those are substantially touristic websites. The Official webpage of the Development Foundation of Armenia is among the cracked websites”, he said. The hackers…