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U.K. Citizen Extradited and Pleads Guilty to Cyber Crime Offenses

Posted on May 9, 2023 by Dissent

A U.K. citizen pleaded guilty today in New York to his role in cyberstalking and multiple schemes that involve computer hacking, including the July 2020 hack of Twitter. Joseph James O’Connor, aka PlugwalkJoe, 23, was extradited from Spain on April 26. “O’Connor’s criminal activities were flagrant and malicious, and his conduct impacted multiple people’s lives….

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NL: Suspect arrested after data theft and threat

Posted on May 8, 2023 by Dissent

Dutch police have made another arrest involving an alleged hacker. It sounds like they identified and arrested this individual fairly quickly, which raises questions about whether this suspect had terrible OpSec or if the police had other sources of leads that enabled them to identify and arrest them. There is nothing in their release that…

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Uber’s former Chief Security Officer sentenced to three years probation for covering up massive data breach

Posted on May 5, 2023 by Dissent

 SAN FRANCISCO – Joseph Sullivan was sentenced to serve a three-year term of probation and ordered to pay a fine of $50,000, announced First Assistant United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and FBI San Francisco Special Agent in Charge Robert K. Tripp.  The sentence was handed down by the Hon. William H. Orrick, United States…

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Persistent attackers: Eurasia Group believes it has been dealing with the same attackers since 2020

Posted on May 3, 2023 by Dissent

Some attackers are harder to kick out and keep out. From a notification letter to a state attorney general’s office by external counsel for Eurasia Group, a consulting firm in New York: In December 2020, Eurasia Group discovered suspicious activity within its email system. Eurasia Group immediately launched an investigation, with the assistance of third-party…

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Promising Jobs at the U.S. Postal Service, ‘US Job Services’ Leaks Customer Data

Posted on May 3, 2023 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: A sprawling online company based in Georgia that has made tens of millions of dollars purporting to sell access to jobs at the United States Postal Service (USPS) has exposed its internal IT operations and database of nearly 900,000 customers. The leaked records indicate the network’s chief technology officer in Pakistan has been hacked…

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IT giant Bitmarck shuts down customer, internal systems after cyberattack

Posted on May 2, 2023 by Dissent

Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: German IT services provider Bitmarck has shut down all of its customer and internal systems, including entire datacenters in some cases, following a cyberattack. The company, one of the largest service providers for German health insurers, said no customer, patient, or insured individuals’ data had been accessed in the security breach…

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