Catalin Cimpanu reports: A Pennsylvania judge has sentenced Adam Flanagan, 42, of Bala Cynwyd, PA to one year and one day in prison for hacking and damaging the IT networks of several water utility providers across the US East Coast. The sentence was passed down last week for crimes committed in the spring of 2014….
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Leak of Windows 10 Source Code Raises Security Concerns
Rhett Jones reports: Microsoft has confirmed that a significant chunk of its source code for Windows 10 was posted to a repository called BetaArchive. The exact size of the leak has been disputed, but the data reportedly comes from the Shared Source Kit that Microsoft distributes to trusted partners. First reported by The Register and…
More data from Cowboys Casino hack released
Brodie Thomas reports: Hackers have released more data from the Cowboys Casino hack of last year, this time with more sensitive information. The second data dump appeared on a torrent site and on the website pastebin.com on Thursday. “Cowboys Casino has still not taken the matter of their customers/employees security seriously, so we are releasing…
Singapore watchdog penalizes firm for data breach
K.C. Vijayan reports: The Personal Data Protection Commission imposed a $3,000 financial penalty on DataPost, a business printing and mailing solutions provider, for a data breach that led to leaks of personal financial information. The commission, which probed the case, said the sensitive nature of the data was an aggravating factor. But it was mitigated…
GOP data firm that exposed millions of Americans’ personal information is facing its first class-action lawsuit
Natasha Bertrand reports: A data-analytics firm hired by the Republican National Committee last year to gather political information about US voters accidentally leaked the sensitive personal details of roughly 198 million citizens earlier this month. And it’s now facing its first class-action lawsuit. Deep Root Analytics, a data firm contracted by the RNC, stored details of about…
Larson Studios Breaks Silence about TheDarkOverlord hack and extortion (UPDATED)
In an intriguing follow-up to a case I reported in April concerning a hack-extortion incident involving TheDarkOverlord, Janko Roettgers reports that Larson Studios actually paid TheDarkOverlord’s 50 BTC demand. That alone would be surprising and newsworthy (there had been no payments made to the BTC wallet address given in the extortion contract), but Roettgers also…