Simon Sharwood reports: Personal information describing names, addresses, bank account details, and taxation IDs of 38,000 Australian government employees has been leaked to the dark web after a ransomware attack. The treasurer of the Australian State of South Australia, Rob Lucas, today revealed the source of the leak: outsourced payroll provider Frontier Software. Read more at The…
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10 countries simulate cyber attack on global financial system
Steven Scheer of Reuters reports: Israel on Thursday led a 10-country simulation of a major cyber attack on the global financial system in an attempt to increase cooperation that could help to minimise any potential damage to financial markets and banks. The simulated cyber attack evolved over 10 days, with sensitive data emerging on the…
Ie: Hackers accessed HSE system eight weeks before cyber attack
Dyane Connor reports: The cyber attackers who hacked the Health Service Executive’s IT system, had accessed the system eight weeks before it detonated the malicious software, which caused devastating disruption across healthcare services. A report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has found there were several “missed opportunities” after a phishing email was opened allowing the attacker access…
News Group settle News of the World and Sun hacking claims, Statements in Open Court
On 8 and 9 December 2021 the settlement of a 15 phone hacking claims against News Group Newspapers were announced. A series of statements in open court were read before Fancourt J, culminating in a high profile and hard hitting unilateral statement in open court by Sienna Miller. This claim was against the Sun alone. Her statement in…
Class Action Lawsuit Over StockX Hack Dismissed
Victor Deng reports: StockX’s legal saga in connection with a data breach that affected millions of users in 2019 is one step closer to wrapping up after a federal judge in charge of the case dismissed the consolidated class action lawsuit. According to The Fashion Law, Michigan District Judge Victoria Roberts has granted StockX’s motion to dismiss the complaints against the secondary marketplace citing…
Former Superget[.]info hacker to publish autobiography
Vietnamnet reports: Ngo Minh Hieu, or Hieupc, who once operated a massive international hacking and identity theft scheme, has revealed that he will publish a book about his life, especially the time in jail in the US. […] Hieu, born in 1989 in Gia Lai, was well known as a hacker behind one of the…