Scott Anderson and Andrew Culbert report: The RCMP suspected someone senior in its ranks was offering to spill secrets, but still didn’t know the identity of the alleged leaker for several months after they first learned highly confidential information about investigations had been compromised. The revelation is contained in court documents unsealed late last week…
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UK: Barrow computer hacker tapped into school network and brought down Labour website
Melissa Major reports: A computer hacker who brought down the Labour general election candidate’s website and tapped into a school network has been given a suspended sentence. Bradley Kai Hayden Niblock, 22, was caught after the Cyber and Digital Crime Unit followed a pattern of online offending last year. Niblock, of Hawcoat Lane, Barrow, admitted…
Frederick Public Schools in Oklahoma back up and running after ransomware attack (updated)
DataBreaches.net has become aware of yet another school district that fell victim to a ransomware attack. The Frederick Public Schools in Oklahoma was breached a few months ago, but they had not yet disclosed the incident publicly as they have been working to recover from backups and to notify everyone who may have been impacted….
Il: Details of over 200,000 students leaked in cyberattack
Tzvi Joffre reports: The details of about 280,000 students throughout Israel were leaked after a cyberattack targeted the AcadeME company, which services a number of colleges and universities throughout the country, last week. AcadeME helps hundreds of thousands of students find jobs at thousands of companies. A pro-Palestinian Malaysian hacker group known as “DragonForce” claimed…
Builder for Babuk Locker ransomware leaked online
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The builder for the Babuk Locker ransomware was leaked online this week, allowing easy access to an advanced ransomware strain to any would-be criminal group looking to get into the ransomware scene with little to no development effort. According to a copy of the leak, obtained and tested by The Record, the Babuk…
UK: I was fired for telling ICO of Serco track and trace data breach, claims sacked worker
Gareth Corfield reports: A British coronavirus contact tracer who has said she was sacked from Serco for blowing the whistle on a data breach had part of her legal case thrown out because she was working for a mini umbrella company and not Serco itself, a judge has ruled. The woman, named by Bristol Employment…