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Law firm becomes victim of cryptolocker

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Dissent

Ziprick and Cramer LLP are notifying clients after some of their files were locked up by cryptoware.

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@MarxistAttorney tweet suggests he’s been arrested (corrected and updated)

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Dissent

Update of March 19: “Attorney” informs DataBreaches.net that he was not arrested and was just taking a break. Original post: It appears that a young hacker who goes by the online handle of “Attorney” (@MarxistAttorney on Twitter) has been arrested. In a tweet tonight, he wrote: Well this is the end my friends, it was…

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Hacker Admits Sabotaging Long Island Company

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Dissent

There’s a follow-up to a breach involving  Spellman High Voltage Electronics Corporation  first noted on this site in May, 2013. Thomas Bolger reports: A software programmer formerly from Smithtown has admitted to hacking into and sabotaging a Long Island-based company’s computer network in retaliation for being passed over for promotions three years ago. Michael Meneses…

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Investigator Admits Guilt in Hiring of a Hacker

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Dissent

Matthew Goldstein reports: A private investigator who has done work for small New York City law firms that specialize in personal injury and medical malpractice litigation pleaded guilty on Friday in federal court in Manhattan to one charge of conspiracy in hiring a hacker to help with his investigation. The guilty plea, by Eric Saldarriaga,…

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Three Defendants Charged with One of the Largest Reported Data Breaches in U.S. History

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Dissent

An indictment was unsealed Thursday against two Vietnamese citizens who resided in the Netherlands, for their roles in hacking email service providers throughout the United States.  The guilty plea of one of the defendants was also unsealed at the same time.  In addition, a federal grand jury returned an indictment this week against a Canadian citizen…

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UK Arrests 56 People For Data Theft, Hacking Attacks On Yahoo, DoD, PlayStation Networks

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Dissent

Sneha Shankar reports: U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) conducted 56 arrests in an effort to nab hackers during a “strike week” in the country. Officials conducted 25 different operations and those arrested were suspected of cybercrimes like data theft, fraud and virus writing, the BBC reported. The raids were coordinated by NCA’S National Cyber Crime…

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