Joseph Cox reports: Hackers have broken into gaming giant Electronic Arts, the publisher of Battlefield, FIFA, and The Sims, and stole a wealth of game source code and related internal tools, Motherboard has learned. “You have full capability of exploiting on all EA services,” the hackers claimed in various posts on underground hacking forums viewed…
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The Ruthless Cyber Gang Behind the Hospital Ransomware Crisis
Kevin Poulsen and Melanie Evans report on Ryuk threat actors: A ransomware attack on a national hospital chain nearly brought Las Vegas hospitals to their knees. Another attack in Oregon abruptly shut down alerts tied to patient monitors tracking vital signs. In New York, one county’s only trauma center briefly closed to ambulances, with the…
NY: Arnoff Moving & Storage data breach revealed customer information: What we know
Saba Ali reports: Arnoff Moving & Storage customers may have had their data stolen by hackers as part of a breach, the company said. The company could not say how many customers may have been impacted, how long ago the data may be from, or if the breach was limited to its regional Mid Hudson…
Russian hackers breached Dutch police systems in 2017
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Hackers working on behalf of Russian intelligence services breached the internal network of Dutch police in 2017 during the country’s investigation of the MH-17 crash. The intrusion was kept under wraps by Dutch investigators until this week when multiple sources revealed the incident to Dutch newspaper the Volkskrant. Read more on The Record.
Do We Even Need the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act (CFAA)?–Van Buren v. US
Eric Goldman writes: Last week, the Supreme Court decided Van Buren v. US. Many hoped the decision would clarify how owners can delimit third-party usage of their computer resources for purposes of the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act (CFAA). Disappointingly, the court explicitly punted on that key question, though the decision probably will prompt lower…
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
This story was originally published by ProPublica and is reproduced with permission. While many are focused on the societal implications, remember that this incident involves a data breach or leak. Was this an insider/whistleblower leak or something else? They report, “ProPublica is not disclosing how it obtained the data, which was given to us in…