Users of the “cloud mining” service Cloudminr.io were greeted with an unwelcome surprise when they showed up at the site in the last several hours: a CSV (comma separated values) file containing a sample of the entire user database for the website. The whole site is apparently for sale, and the hackers appear to have…
Category: Breach Incidents
LA: Former Systems Administrator Charged With Intentionally Damaging Computers
July 1 – United States Attorney Walt Green announced that former Georgia-Pacific IT specialist and systems administrator BRIAN P. JOHNSON, age 43, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was arrested this morning after his indictment last week by a federal grand jury for intentionally damaging protected computers. The indictment charges that, from February 14, 2014 through February…
‘I’m COMING for you, DIRTBAG!’: Ex-Sony chief Smedley to Kid Lizard hacker
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…
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…