This site has reported on VandaTheGod more than half a dozen times over the past years. Now Check Point researchers report on how an open tab in a screenshot ultimately enabled them to identify him: Since 2013, many official websites belonging to governments worldwide were hacked and defaced by an attacker who self-identified as ’VandaTheGod.’…
Category: Hack
Another Alleged FIN7 Cybercrime Gang Member Arrested
Ishita Chigilli Palli reports: The FBI has arrested another alleged member of the FIN7 cybercrime gang, which has been stealing millions of payment cards and other financial data since at least September 2015, according to federal court documents. Ukrainian national Denys Iarmak was extradited from Thailand and arrested in Seattle on Friday, according to documents unsealed…
Arbonne MLM data breach exposes user passwords, personal info
Sergiu Gatlan reports: International multi-level marketing (MLM) firm Arbonne International exposed the personal information and credentials of thousands after its internal systems were breached by an unauthorized party last month. […] “On the evening of April 20, 2020, Arbonne became aware of unusual activity within a limited number of its internal systems,” Arbonne says in a data breach…
26 million LiveJournal credentials leaked online, sold on the dark web
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Blogging platform LiveJournal appears to have suffered a security breach in 2014, according to multiple hackers who are now selling and freely trading the company’s user database on the dark web and on hacking forums, ZDNet has learned. For some, this might be old news. Rumors about a LiveJournal security breach have been circulating online for…
KS: ‘In the hands of cyber criminals’: Man sues WSU over hack of decades-old student data
Amy Renee Leiker reports a follow-up to a breach previously reported on this site: A December data breach that jeopardized the personal information of thousands of current and former Wichita State University students — some of whom attended the school decades ago — is now the subject of a federal lawsuit. Michael Bahnmaier of Wichita…
Hacker Selling 80,000 Users’ Data Stolen From Cryptocurrency Wallets
IANS reports: A hacker who was behind the cyber attack on Ethereum.org is now selling data tied to key cryptocurrency wallets like Keepkey, Trezor, Ledger and online investment platform Bnktothefuture. The hacker has three large databases with information pertaining to at least 80,000 customers. This includes the customer’s email address, name, phone number, residential address…