Alexander J. Martin reports: John Smedley, the former head of Sony Online Entertainment, has reacted to a Lizard Squad hacker’s lenient sentence with utter fury, and has suggested he may take legal action to bring him back to court. [..] Smedley took off on a long Twitter rant about the hacker, largely on personal grievances…
Category: Breach Incidents
Harvard Investigates IT Security Breach
Melanie Y. Fu reports: Harvard is investigating a security breach to its Faculty of Arts and Sciences and central administration information technology networks that administrators say may have compromised email login information. The breach was discovered on June 19, according to a joint statement from Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 and Executive Vice President Katie N. Lapp…
@TeamGhostShell Returns with Leak the entire summer
If you remember @TeamGhostShell from pre 2013, then you are in for a surprise, almost exactly 2 years and 6 months away they have returned with a rampage of leaked data from all sorts of websites. On the 29th June 2015 came a tweet that was much unexpected and from there on has been a near…
Europol brings down Zeus, SpyEye cybercriminals
The Local reports: Investigators from six different European countries, including Austria, have succeeded in bringing down a cybercriminal group in Ukraine. Europol said that the action, which took place in Ukraine on June 18th and 19th, resulted in five arrests and the confiscation of computer equipment and other devices for further investigation. The high-level cybercriminals…
Ca: Detour Gold data dump exposed over 1,300 employees’ details
Since April, DataBreaches.net has been reporting on the hack of a small Canadian gold-mining firm, Detour Gold. As noted in April, hackers who call themselves Angels_of_Truth claim to have hacked Detour Gold in revenge for Canada’s economic sanctions on Russia. Their statements have been written in both English and Russian. Following the first paste and…
Bits ‘n Pieces
Recaps of a few more breach reports I recently read: Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School in New Hampshire joined the ranks of those who have made email attachment errors that exposed employee information to other employees and staff. Information in the spreadsheet included information on current and former employees: names, gender, Social Security numbers, benefit…