The following notice was posted June 3 on Facebook.ย As of publication, there is no notice on their website, and although AMI indicates that APT73 is responsible for the attack, there is nothing on Bashe’s leak site or any other leak site.ย ๐จ๐ฅ๐๐๐ก๐ง ๐ฃ๐จ๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐๐๐ โ ๐๐ฌ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฆ๐๐๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ง ๐ง๐ผ ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐๐ฎ๐น๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฐ๐น๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐, ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ป๐ฒ๐ฟ๐, ๐๐๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ต๐ผ๐น๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ…
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Za: Cyber extortionist sentenced to eight years in jail
Admire Moyo reports on an insider wrongdoing case in South Africa: In a landmark case, a man was last week sentenced to eight years in jail for contravening South Africaโs Cyber Crimes Act. Lucky Majangandile Erasmus (36), a former employee of Ecentric Payment Systems, was sentenced by the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court after entering into…
Nigerian National Sentenced To More Than Five Years For Hacking, Fraud, And Identity Theft Scheme
Jay Clayton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, andย Christopher G. Raia, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (โFBIโ), announced that KINGSLEY UCHELUE UTULU was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe to 63 months in prison for…
PowerSchool hacker pleads guilty, released on personal recognizance bond
He’s just a frail-looking teenager, but he sent threatening emails to get his victims to pay his extortion demands. Today, 19 year-old Assumption College student Matthew Lane waived indictment and pleaded guilty in a Worcester courtroom to hacking an unnamed telecom company and an unnamed edtech vendor, widely known to be PowerSchool. As per the…
Germany fines Vodafone $51 million for privacy, security breaches
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The German data protection authority (BfDI) has fined Vodafone GmbH, the telecommunications company’s German subsidiary, โฌ45 million ($51.4 million) for privacy and security violations. “Due to malicious employees in partner agencies who broker contracts to customers on behalf of Vodafone, there had been fraud cases due to fictitiousย contracts or contract changes at…
Vanta bug exposed customersโ data to other customers
Zack Whittaker reports: Compliance company Vanta has confirmed that a bug exposed the private data of some of its customers to other Vanta customers. The company told TechCrunch that the data exposure was a result of a product code change and not caused by an intrusion. Vanta, which helps corporate customers automate their security and…