Olga Kharif reports: Hackers moved some digital money from the Decentralized Autonomous Organization, a cryptocurrency-backed venture capital fund, sending the price of ether — the virtual currency underlying the project — plunging. Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, which supports ether, asked exchanges in a Reddit post to “please pause ETH and DAO trading, deposits and withdrawals until further notice,”…
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BesaMafia hitman site hacked again
Remember when BesaMafia, a dark web site where people can allegedly hire hitmen was hacked and data was dumped in May? What could be worse, right? Well, they could be hacked again and their data dumped again. The hacker known as “bRpsd” has again embarrassed the site, which claims to be linked to the Albanian Mafia, by…
ISIL-Linked Hacker Pleads Guilty to Providing Material Support
There’s an update to a previously reported prosecution. From the DOJ: Ardit Ferizi, aka Th3Dir3ctorY, 20, a citizen of Kosovo, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkemaof the Eastern District of Virginia to providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and…
Mossack Fonseca worker arrested in Switzerland
Juliette Garside reports: An IT worker at the Geneva offices of Mossack Fonseca, the offshore law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers scandal, has been arrested in the hunt for the whistleblower behind the biggest ever leak to journalists. […] “A procedure has been opened by the public ministry of Geneva following a complaint…
Readers get notifications, Wednesday edition
Readers send along their notifications from two recently disclosed breaches. First, from MySpace: From: Myspace Legal Date:2016/06/14 11:41 AM (GMT-05:00) To: <redacted> Subject: Critical Information About Your Myspace Account Notice of Data Breach You may have heard reports recently about a security incident involving Myspace. We would like to make sure you have the facts…
Acer Service Corp. notifying customers of payment card breach that began in 2015
Acer Service Corporation is notifying customers who used their e-commerce site between May 12, 2015 and April 28, 2016 that their name, address, payment card number, card expiration date and three-digit security codes may have been compromised. If you used their site within that timeframe, you may want to read their notice to the California Attorney…