Shannon Prather reports: Nearly 118,000 people who receive Ramsey County services may have had some personal or health information compromised when hackers breached the county’s e-mail system in August 2018. County officials had initially said more than 500 people were affected last winter, but officials dramatically increased that number Tuesday after hiring an outside data…
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Recidivist Hacker Sentenced for Violating Supervised Release Conditions
Cape Cod Today staff report: A New Bedford man was sentenced yesterday for violating conditions of his supervised release by engaging in another cybercrime after being released from federal custody after two prior convictions. Cameron Lacroix, 30, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Senior Judge Mark L. Wolf to 15 months in prison, to be…
Data of 24.3 million Lumin PDF users shared on hacking forum
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The details of over 24.3 million Lumin PDF users have been shared today on a hacking forum, ZDNet has learned from a source. The hacker said they leaked the company’s data after Lumin PDF administrators failed to answer his queries multiple times over the past few months. Read more on ZDNet.
Chicago brokerage to pay $1.5 million for cyber attack lapses: U.S. CFTC
I’m still getting caught up with news after being out of town for a few days. Here’s a report I just saw from Suzanne Barlyn of Reuters: The U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Friday that a Chicago-based futures brokerage will pay a total of $1.5 million for letting cyber criminals breach the…
Hacker destroys Hungarian Development Center’s digital database
Bhaswati Guha Majumder reports: … In the recent incident, which happened in mid-July the cyberattack was launched targeting Hungarian Development Center (MFK). The data breach was so damaging that the authority was forced to reorganize its administration from scratch. A news site 24.hu reported that the hackers most likely originated from North Korea. Later the…
Teenage British hacker busted for hacking famed musicians, stealing and selling unreleased songs
Larry McShane reports: A British teen was arrested for hacking into caches of unreleased music from world-renowned artists — and then peddling the rare recordings for cryptocurrency, authorities charged Friday. The arrest of the 19-year-old suspect was made in Ipswich, a town about 80 miles outside London, according to a joint announcement by London Police…