Ryan Price reports on The Manchester Evening News: The Post Office has agreed to pay compensation to hundreds of former subpostmasters whose names and addresses were accidentally leaked during a data breach last year. Last June, the personal details of 555 victims of the Horizon IT scandal were published on the Post Office’s website. What…
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How the Signal Knockoff App TeleMessage Got Hacked in 20 Minutes
By now, it is widely known that President Trump’s former national security advisor, Mike Waltz, was spotted using a Signal app clone during a cabinet meeting. Significantly, the TeleMessage clone archives messages. Micah Lee reports what happened next. Two days after the photo of Waltz was published, an anonymous source told me that they had…
Cocospy stalkerware apps go offline after data breach
Zack Whittaker reports: A trio of phone surveillance apps, which was caught spying on millions of people’s phones earlier this year, has gone offline. Cocospy, Spyic, and Spyzie were three near-identical but differently branded stalkerware apps that allowed the person planting one of the apps on a target’s phone access to their personal data — including their messages, photos,…
Ex-NSA bad-guy hunter listened to Scattered Spider’s fake help-desk calls: ‘Those guys are good’
Jessica Lyons reports: The call came into the help desk at a large US retailer. An employee had been locked out of their corporate accounts. But the caller wasn’t actually a company employee. He was a Scattered Spider criminal trying to break into the retailer’s systems – and he was really good, according to Jon…
Former Sussex Police officer facing trial for rape charged with 18 further offences relating to computer misuse
Matt Pole reports: A former Sussex Police officer, currently facing trial for rape and sexual assault charges following an Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) investigation, has been charged with 18 further criminal offences. The IOPC said ex-PC Christopher Mallet, 40, who was a police constable based at Horsham, is due to appear at Guildford…
Beach mansion, Benz and Bitcoin worth $4.5m seized from League of Legends hacker Shane Stephen Duffy
Demi Huang reports: Luxury assets worth more than $4.5 million have been forfeited after being linked to a previously convicted Queensland hacker. The haul, including a beachfront mansion, a 2019 black Mercedes-Benz sedan, and nearly 25 Bitcoin, was seized in April following a years-long investigation into stolen cryptocurrency and cyber hacking. The AFP-led Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce (CACT) secured the…