Joseph Curtis reports: Two suspected computer hackers accused of targeting mobile network TalkTalk and stealing their customer banking details will stand trial in July next year. Matthew Hanley, 21, and Connor Allsopp, 19, are said to be involved in the massive data breach in October last year, said to have cost the company £42million in lost…
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Santa sabotaged: Mass data theft from children’s letters to Father Frost in Russia
RT reports: Parents beware! A data breach has been discovered somewhere it was least expected. The Russian telecom watchdog has tracked 55 websites which disclose personal data from the online letters children write to Father Frost (the Russian version of Santa Claus) ahead of the New Year. “We’ve discovered 55 websites that sabotage the work…
Three mobile data hack leaves 9 million customers at risk (UPDATED)
Update: Over 130,000 accounts were compromised. See Three’s statement, which appears under the original post. Ben Chapman reports: Three men have been arrested after a data breach at the Three mobile network allowed fraudsters to access personal data and steal phones. The company, said names and addresses were stolen and it does not know how many of…
8 million GitHub profiles were leaked from GeekedIn’s MongoDB – here’s how to see yours
Troy Hunt writes: Let me make it crystal clear in the opening paragraph: this incident is not about any sort of security vulnerability on GitHub’s behalf, rather it relates to a trove of data from their site which was inappropriately scraped and then inadvertently exposed due to a vulnerability in another service. My data. Probably…
Hackers say they took Mega.nz source code and admin logins
Zack Whittaker reports: A hacker group claims to have obtained source code and admin accounts for the file-sharing site Mega.nz, formerly owned by internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom. The hacker group, known as the Amn3s1a Team, told me by email that they had also obtained internal documents from the company’s servers, by exploiting an escalation of…
TX: Fourth Defendant Convicted in Scheme that Defrauded Electronic Arts of More Than $16 Million Worth of Virtual Currency
Anthony Clark, 24, was convicted today of wire fraud in connection with his involvement in a scheme to defraud a software company, Electronic Arts, of more than $16 million. The conviction was announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas and Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Leslie R. Caldwell. Clark’s conviction…