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
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,…
Three Defendants Charged with One of the Largest Reported Data Breaches in U.S. History
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…
UK Arrests 56 People For Data Theft, Hacking Attacks On Yahoo, DoD, PlayStation Networks
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…
Hacktivists claim to have accessed files from private U.S.-based defense group
Adam Greenberg reports: In an email sent to an SC Magazine editorial executive, a group identifying itself as CyberBerkut – reported pro-Russian hacktivists – said it had gained access to files on the mobile device of a Green Group official who “recently visited Kiev as a member of American military delegation.” Green Group is a private military company (PMC)…
Army and Air Force Exchange confirms SIGA Telecom data breach of US military customers’ information in Germany
Stars and Stripes reports: Names, addresses, emails and technical information belonging to 98,000 U.S. military personnel stationed in Europe have been stolen from an on-base cellphone concessionaire, according to the Army and Air Force Exchange. “The Exchange learned on February 11 of a data breach of customer information held by concessionaire SIGA Telecom,” AAFES spokesman…