Bill Toulas reports: A 28-year-old United Kingdom man from Fleetwood, Hertfordshire, has been convicted of unauthorized computer access with criminal intent and blackmailing his employer. A press release published yesterday by the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) explains that in February 2018, the convicted man, Ashley Liles, worked as an IT Security Analyst…
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Hacker Sentenced to 51 Months in Prison for Stealing Customer Credit Card Numbers
PHOENIX, Ariz. – Chirag Patel, 38, most recently of Norfolk, Virginia, was sentenced on May 8, 2023, by United States District Judge G. Murray Snow to 51 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. He also was ordered to pay $87,522.25 in restitution. Patel pleaded guilty to Computer Fraud. On numerous occasions…
Amsterdam court hears case against alleged hacker, “DataBox”
DataBreaches previously reported that Dutch police arrested a 25-year-old man from Almere in November of 2022. Erkan S., known as “DataBox” on RaidForums, has been in custody since then. He was charged with dumping the GIS (Gebühren Info Service GmbH) data of nine million Austrians and listing it for sale on RaidForums in May 2020….
Rackspace gets San Antonio federal judge to toss proposed class-action suit over ransomware attack
Patrick Danner reports: Rackspace Technology Inc. won’t have to face proposed class-action litigation in San Antonio over a December ransomware attack that hobbled the cloud computing company. U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez on Thursday sided with Rackspace in dismissing litigation that had been brought by 37 plaintiffs from across the U.S. who lost access to email and related data as a result…
‘Fraud is fun’: Teen hacker charged with breaking into DraftKings accounts leading to theft of $600,000
Lukas I. Alpert reports: A boastful teenage hacker has been charged with orchestrating a break-in to the sports betting website DraftKings, which led to $600,000 being drained from hundreds of customer accounts. Joseph Garrison, 18, of Madison, Wis., is accused of using stolen log-in and password combinations he bought on the dark web to hack…
OH: Buckley King law firm hit by BlackBasta
Ransomware groups often promise to keep everything confidential if their victim pays them. They can’t do that if their chats are not secure and someone is able to shoulder-surf or otherwise get access to the negotiations and any files provided by the attackers as proof — or any bitcoin wallet addresses. If victims think or…