Zack Whittaker reports: Food delivery startup DoorDash has received dozens of complaints from customers who say their accounts have been hacked. Dozens of people have tweeted at @DoorDash with complaints that their accounts had been improperly accessed and had fraudulent food deliveries charged to their account. In many cases, the hackers changed their email addresses…
Category: Hack
Security researcher fined for hacking hotel Wi-Fi and putting passwords on the internet
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Singapore authorities have fined a Chinese security researcher with SGD$5,000 (USD$3,600) for hacking into a local hotel’s Wi-Fi system without authorization and then publishing a blog post about it, revealing passwords for the hotel’s internal network. The incident took place at the end of August, this year, when Zheng Dutao, 23, of…
Cyber-attack at fashion website SheIn.com hits 6.4m customers
Jessica Haworth reports: Retail website SheIn.com has notified customers of a serious data breach after malicious hackers stole the details of 6.42 million people. The ‘affordable fashion’ site, which ships worldwide, was made aware of the cyber-attack on August 22, though it is believed to have started in June. During an investigation, the company’s servers…
Oklahoma man charged, accused of hacking into Guthrie Police Department’s computer system
Patrina Adger reports: A man has been charged and arrested after authorities said he hacked into the Guthrie Police Department’s confidential computer system. On Sept. 7, police obtained a warrant to search 19-year-old Jared Joslin’s home, where officers discovered several police radios and handheld devices that were stolen from the Logan County Sheriff’s Office within…
Operator of Counter Antivirus Service “Scan4you” Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison
I’m a few days late in posting this press release from the DOJ, but of note: A Latvian “non-citizen,” meaning a citizen of the former USSR who resided in Riga, Latvia, was sentenced to 168 months in prison today for offenses related to his operation of “Scan4you,” an online counter antivirus service that helped computer…
For Hackers, Anonymity Was Once Critical. That’s Changing.
Stephen Hiltner reports: Ask any hacker who’s been around long enough, and there’s a good chance you’ll hear an archetypal story, tinged with regret, about the first time his or her real identity was publicly disclosed. After enjoying years of online anonymity, the hacker known as Grifter was unmasked by a less-than-scrupulous spouse. “Hey, Neil!”…