Category: Breach Incidents

SAN JOSE — Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced the creation of the eCrime Unit, staffed with Department of Justice attorneys and investigators, and charged with identifying and prosecuting identity theft crimes, cyber crimes and other crimes involving the use of technology. "Today’s criminals increasingly use the Internet, smartphones, and other digital devices to…

Last week American had a very embarrassing time, trying to cover up then fully admitting that Iran had gotten control of one of the spy planes they use to do surveillance on other countries, otherwise known as a drone.In recent days it has come to light that the attack on the drone was done by GPS, by…

To celebrate the launch of the Enterprise Cyber Security & Information Assurance Summit taking place in San Jose, CA, USA, FC Business Intelligence are releasing some exclusive podcasts recorded with their host organization The Global Institute of Cyber Security & Research (GICSR) and the Industry Information Analysis and Sharing Centre. The first of these hard…

This is shaping up to the year of high-profile hacker attacks in the gaming world, as game developer Square Enix announced this week that 1.8 million user accounts were compromised as a result of a recent online security breach. The developers responsible for the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest game franchises reported yesterday that a hacker “may have gained unauthorized access…

an online business-to-business marketplace has been hit by a hacker who has dumped a load of their users accounts on pastebin. the attack is on portalmercosur.com and done by AnonymousSynn. The leak contains 2800+ accounts all of which have clear text passwords, emails and usernames. https://pastebin.com/pbRm7FH3