Michael Wittner reports: A student in the Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District has been charged with hacking into the school system’s email system around midnight on Friday, according to an email sent by Superintendent Dr. Ben Drati. Drati reported that the student was able to send messages to the student body for 16 minutes before…
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GoDaddy notifies users of breached hosting accounts
Sergiu Gatlan reports: GoDaddy notified some of its customers that an unauthorized party used their web hosting account credentials to connect to their hosting account via SSH. The security incident took place on October 19, 2019, after the company’s security team discovered suspicious activity on a subset of GoDaddy’s servers. Read more on BleepingComputer.
Computer hackers take £2.4m from sale of Constable painting
Annabel Sampson reports: A rustic scene of Hampstead Heath painted by John Constable, one of the great English Romanticists, titled A View of Hampstead Heath: Child’s Hill, Harrow in the Distance is at the centre of a dispute between a dealer and gallery as a result of a computer hacker who tricked its buyer into sending £2.4…
German authorities charge Russian hacker for 2015 Bundestag hack
Catalin Cimpanu reports: German prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant today for a hacker working for the Russian military on charges of hacking the German Parliament in the spring of 2015. German newspaper the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, who broke the story today, says German authorities are looking for Dmitriy Sergeyevich Badin, 29, from Kursk, Russia. Read more…
Indonesia’s Tokopedia begins probe after data of 91 million users allegedly leaked
Reuters reports: Tokopedia, Indonesia’s largest e-commerce platform, said it was investigating an attempted hack and claims that the details of millions of its users had been leaked online. “We found that there had been an attempt to steal data from Tokopedia users,” a spokesman for the company said in a statement late Saturday. Read more on…
Maze ransomware operators claim to have stolen millions of credit cards from Banco BCR
Lawrence Abrams reports on a new “press release” from the Maze ransomware operators. The release was posted yesterday and claims that the Maze Team had successfully attacked Banco BCR, the state-owned bank of Costa Rico in August, 2019 The attackers claim that the bank never complied with its obligations to notify other banks and regulators….