There’s a follow-up to a University of Chicago hack first reported on this site in 2015, when DataBreaches.net tried to alert the university to a hack and partial data dump claimed by Carbonic. Fox32 reports: A Naperville man was charged this week with stealing the identity of a west suburban couple after their personal information…
Category: Breach Incidents
BambooHR discloses breach involving TraxPayroll
BambooHR is a cloud-based human resources (HR) software service headquartered in Utah that provides human resources software as a service for small and midsize businesses. Their services include TraxPayroll. On February 13, the firm became aware of unauthorized access by an unidentified third party. The initial access appeared to have occurred on February 5. Inappropriate…
ShareThis breach notification
In my inbox last night: Hello, At ShareThis, protecting the security of the information in our possession is a responsibility we take very seriously. We write to notify you of a data security incident that may have exposed some of your personal information. This notice explains the incident and steps ShareThis has undertaken to address…
“Alfabeto Virtual” sentenced to jail plus restitution
In May, 2018, Billy Ribeiro Anderson, known online as ““Alfabeto Virtual,” was charged with hacking and defacing two of the many sites he had attacked. In October, 2018, the Southern District of New York announced that he had pleaded guilty to two felony counts of computer fraud for his attacks on the New York City…
EOS/USD market drops by 4% following $7.7 million EOS hack attack.
Rajarshi Mitra reports: EOS/USD fell from $3.63 to $3.48, losing 4% of its value in the process. The overall sentiment may have turned bearish following news that hackers had stolen nearly $7.7 billion worth of EOS tokens. As reported by FX Street, “A hacker who is yet to be identified made away with 2.09 million…
Grassroots List of Cybersecurity Indictments of State-Sponsored Hackers
Seen at Meritalk: Katie Nickels, a threat intelligence expert for MITRE, released a grassroots compiled list of recent cybersecurity indictments of state-sponsored hackers earlier this week. The list, which is compiled in a Google Doc, includes 30 indictments at the current moment, spanning from June 2011 to Feb. 2019. “When I tweeted that I wanted…