Kennedy Nolen reports: Foreign hackers targeted the Mount Zion schools computer system in an attack that resulted in 19 days’ worth of grades being wiped out across the district. Data was not removed from the system, but the hackers encrypted several servers, making them unusable, Superintendent Travis Roundcount said in an emailed response to questions from the…
Month: February 2019
NL: Major privacy breach: students could access hospital medical records
Ugh.DutchNews.nl reports: Students working for extra cash at Amsterdam’s OLVG hospital group have for years been given complete access to the medical records system, allowing them to read personal information about friends, family and famous people, the Volkskrant said on Friday. The leak was made public by a philosophy student who made telephone appointments for…
Hacker Breaches Dozens of Sites, Puts 127 Million New Records Up for Sale
Swati Khandelwal reports: A hacker who was selling details of nearly 620 million online accounts stolen from 16 popular websites has now put up a second batch of 127 million records originating from 8 other sites for sale on the dark web. Last week, The Hacker News received an email from a Pakistani hacker who…
Researchers Reveal Suspect Behind Collection #1 Mega Breach
Sir Julio reports: A U.S.-based cybersecurity firm, Recorded Future, alleges to have identified a hacker allegedly responsible for exposing stolen data in a recent leak dubbed Collection #1. Experts from Recorded Future’s threat intel team have claimed that the hacker goes by the pseudonym “C0rpz.” According to the company, multiple individuals came out claiming to serve as the source of the breached data. Read more on Dark Web News.
Artsy Alerts Users of Data-Security Breach; Report Claims Hacked Information for Sale
Alex Greenberg reports: In an email sent to its users on Wednesday evening, the chief technology officer of Artsy—an online platform that offers views into the art world as well as works for sale for prices between “$100 to over $1,000,000,” as its website states—alerted users to “a data security incident that may have impacted…
Chinese company leaves Muslim-tracking facial recognition database exposed online
Catalin Cimpanu reports: One of the facial recognition databases that the Chinese government is using to track the Uyghur Muslim population in the Xinjiang region has been left open on the internet for months, a Dutch security researcher told ZDNet. The database belongs to a Chinese company named SenseNets, which according to its website provides…