Tampa, Florida – On June 22, United States Attorney Roger Handberg announced the successful extraditions of Akinola Taylor of the United Kingdom, Olayemi Adafin of the United Kingdom, Olakunle Oyebanjo of the United Kingdom, and Kazeem Olanrewaju Runsewe of Sweden. These individuals have been charged in the Middle District of Florida with conspiracy to commit…
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Hacker responsible for 2020 Twitter breach sentenced to prison
Zack Whittaker reports the update to the case of Joseph James O’Connor, a British national who was extradited to the U.S. from Spain and pleaded guilty in May: Three years after one of the most visible hacks in recent history played out in real-time in front of millions of Twitter users, one of the hackers responsible…
Law enforcement seizes domains owned by “Pompompurin” and one currently owned by DataBreaches
When the owner of Breached.vc was arrested in March, people expected to see Conor Fitzpatrick’s BreachForums site seized by authorities. Somewhat surprisingly, it wasn’t, and Baphomet, the forum’s administrator, was able to post messages on the site explaining what was going on and that he was taking the site down for fear it had been…
Confused about the drama with the new BreachForums? Reading this will either help you or make your head spin.
[Please see corrections at end of post.] Over the past week, DataBreaches has been contacted by a few journalists who have been somewhat understandably confused about the situation with the original BreachForums and a new forum calling itself BreachForums. And from reading news reports this week, I see that some journalists are making errors, so…
Stephen F. Austin State University students grow anxious about falling behind as school reels from cyberattack last week
Kate McGee reports: More than a week after Stephen F. Austin State University was hit with a cyberattack, leaders at the public university in the East Texas Pineywoods are still working to fully restore email and other online services for the 11,600-student campus. University spokesperson Graham Garner confirmed Tuesday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation…
Two apprehended in CoWin portal data leak case
IANS reports: In a major breakthrough, the Delhi Police Special Cell has apprehended a man and a juvenile from Bihar in connection with the alleged data leak from the CoWin portal, the Centre’s official platform for Covid-19 vaccination registration and certification. According to police sources, the adult man, whose identity has been withheld pending further…