Catalin Cimpanu reports: Two hacker groups are responsible for a huge spike in the number of hacked Magento 2.x shopping sites, according to Willem de Groot, founder of Sanguine Security. This is now the third month in a row when the number of hacked Magento 2.x sites has doubled, after it previously doubled from March…
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UK: TalkTalk hacker Daniel Kelley sentenced to 4 years in jail
From the Crown Prosecution Service: A blackmailing hacker behind the TalkTalk cyber-attack – which cost the company £77million after the personal details of 157,000 customers were stolen – has today (10 June) been sentenced. Daniel Kelley, 22, admitted targeting at least six organisations by threatening to sell their hacked data on the ‘dark web’ unless…
KY: Hopkins County school system dealing with data breach
Rachel Smith reports: Parents of Hopkins County schoolchildren were greeted with a message from the school board Thursday morning alerting them of a data security breach. Because of a school board staff member’s password-protected account being compromised, a currently unidentified user had access to a countywide database, which contains the names, dates of birth and…
CBP says traveler and license plate images were stolen in data breach
Zack Whittaker reports: U.S. Customs and Border Protection has confirmed a data breach has involved the photos of passengers traveling in and out of the United States. The photos were obtained from a subcontractor’s network through a “malicious cyberattack,” a CBP spokesperson told TechCrunch. The agency first learned of the breach on May 31. “CBP…
Former Corp IT Director Convicted of Computer Fraud
Rachel Cohen reports on a hacking incident involving Corp-Students of Georgetown, Inc. (“The Corp.”). Former Georgetown student Justice Suh pleaded guilty on one count of computer fraud for hacking The Corp’s email system. The federal government charged Suh in D.C. federal court in April 2019, and the U.S. government representative in this case recommended a…
Cathay Data Breach Incident – Personal Data Security & Retention Principles Contravened – Lax Data Governance
The following is the media statement from the Privacy Commissioner’s Office following the conclusion of their investigation into the 2018 Cathay Pacific Airways breach. You can download their investigative report from their site here (pdf). The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong (Privacy Commissioner) Mr Stephen Kai-yi WONG today published an investigation report on…