Chris Vallance reports: When Russia’s most notorious hackers hired servers from a UK-registered company, they left a trove of clues behind, the BBC has discovered. The hackers used the computers to attack the German parliament, hijack traffic meant for a Nigerian government website and target Apple devices. The company, Crookservers, had claimed to be based…
Month: November 2017
Czech high court says alleged Russian hacker can be extradited to United States
Jan Lopatka reports: The Prague High Court ruled on Friday that Russian citizen Yevgeniy Nikulin can be extradited to the United States where he is accused of hacking social networks including LinkedIn, a court spokeswoman said. Czech police arrested Yevgeniy Nikulin in Prague in October 2016 in cooperation with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation….
AU: Data breach hits Department of Social Services credit card system
For more than one year, employee data of approximately 8,500 Department of Social Services employees was exposed online due to an error by contractor Business Information Services. Paul Karp reports that the compromised data included: credit card information, employees’ names, user names, work phone numbers, work emails, system passwords, Australian government services number, public service classification…
Cottage Health System Pays $2m to Settle California Charges Over Data Breaches
In December 2013, Cottage Health System disclosed a breach involving PHI. Two years later, we learned of a second breach. And now two years after that, we hear that Cottage Health has settled charges arising from those breaches. From the state’s press release: California Attorney General Xavier Becerra Wednesday announced a $2 million settlement with…
Dalhousie University warns 20,000 of potential information breach
John McPhee reports: Dalhousie University is contacting people whose private information was inadvertently put into a computer file accessible to faculty, staff and students. The university discovered the problem last March but letters informing people of the problem have been arriving just this week. Read more in The Chronicle Herald.
Firefox to collaborate with HaveIBeenPwned to alert users on data breach
HackRead reports: Mozilla is joining hands with popular data breach notification website HaveIBeenPwned.com (HIBP) to send an in-browser alert to Firefox browser users if they are visiting a site that was previously hacked and whether their login credentials have been involved in a data breach. “This is an addon that I’m going to be using for prototyping…