Tariq Panja reports: The Portuguese fan was looking for soccer’s secrets when he began hacking into the legal and financial networks supporting the game’s multibillion-dollar industry five years ago. For years, he plundered internal documents and secret agreements, unmasking questionable practices — and even criminality — by lawyers and players and teams, and then published…
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H&M’s data leak in Germany “in legal examination”
Angela Gonzalez-Rodriguez reports: New York – Fashion retailer H&M (HMb.ST) said on Saturday that data security breaches found at its German unit were unacceptable and it was cooperating with the local data protection supervisory authority in its investigation into the matter. […] In October last year, the ‘Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung‘ reported that personal data of…
Augusta man accused of computer hacking granted bond
Sandy Hodson reported this on January 21st: An Augusta man accused of selling personal identity information on the dark web that he allegedly stole from employers was arrested Friday. […] The investigation also uncovered the sale of personal identity information gathered from TaxSlayer, where Britt was working until his arrest. He is on unpaid leave…
TX: Hackers Stole $10.5 Million From Richardson Company: Feds
Scott Gordon reports: Hackers stole $10.5 million from a Richardson real estate software company with the help of “money mules” – dozens of Americans who unwittingly accepted fraudulent money into their accounts, transferred it to those behind the scheme, and kept a cut for themselves, according to court documents. The company, RealPage, contacted the Dallas…
Fired computer programmer gets prison time for cyberattack against ex-employer in Oregon
Maxine Bernstein reports: A man fired from a McMinnville-based digital marketing company was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in federal prison for launching a cyberattack against his former employer. Kristopher Ives began working for Gearbox Studios in March 2010 as a computer programmer and later as its lead programmer for server architecture…
Identity and Access Misstep: How an Amazon Engineer Exposed Credentials and More
The UpGuard team reports: UpGuard can now disclose that a repository hosted on GitHub with data from an Amazon Web Services engineer containing personal identity documents and system credentials including passwords, AWS key pairs, and private keys has been secured from public access. The data was committed to a public repository on the morning of…