Catalin Cimpanu reports: Japanese electronics and IT company NEC Corp disclosed a security breach today that took place more than three years ago, in December 2016. The company’s admission comes after reports in Japanese media [1, 2, 3] that the company might have suffered a security breach but decided to keep it quiet. Read more on ZDNet.
Category: Hack
Hackers infiltrated a big Facebook data partner to launch scams
Alfred Ng reports: When hackers take over your account on Facebook, it could mean you see suspicious posts about deals on Ray-Ban sunglasses, which are definitely bogus content. But when hackers take over a single account belonging to one of Facebook’s biggest data partners, it means a widespread campaign that could lead to thousands of dollars lost and…
Chasing Soccer’s Secrets, Hacker Found Those of Africa’s Richest Woman, Too
Tariq Panja reports: The Portuguese fan was looking for soccer’s secrets when he began hacking into the legal and financial networks supporting the game’s multibillion-dollar industry five years ago. For years, he plundered internal documents and secret agreements, unmasking questionable practices — and even criminality — by lawyers and players and teams, and then published…
TX: Hackers Stole $10.5 Million From Richardson Company: Feds
Scott Gordon reports: Hackers stole $10.5 million from a Richardson real estate software company with the help of “money mules” – dozens of Americans who unwittingly accepted fraudulent money into their accounts, transferred it to those behind the scheme, and kept a cut for themselves, according to court documents. The company, RealPage, contacted the Dallas…
Russian National Pleads Guilty to Running Online Criminal Marketplace
Press release from DOJ, January 23. Previous coverage on this threat actor on this site can be found here and here. Russian National Pleads Guilty to Running Online Criminal Marketplace A Russian national pleaded guilty today to charges related to his operation of two websites devoted to the facilitation of payment card fraud, computer hacking…
Greece says no data stolen in Turkish hacker attacks on state bodies
Ahval reports: An investigation into Turkish hackers’ attacks last week on websites of Greek state bodies indicated that no data were stolen, Greek daily Kathimerini reported on Wednesday. […] The attack claimed by a Turkish hacker group named the Anka Neferler Tim (Phoenix’s Helmets) made the institutions’ websites unavailable to users, Kathimerini said. Read more…