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Hacker Defaces Ticketfly’s Website, Steals Customer Database

Posted on June 1, 2018 by Dissent

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: A hacker briefly took over Ticketfly’s website, defacing it with a picture of the V for Vendetta character and a claim of responsibility. The hacker also sent Motherboard files of what they say is employee and customer information taken from Ticketfly’s database. “Ticketfly HacKeD By IsHaKdZ,” read the message, according to a…

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Ca: Sooke School District warns parents of privacy breach

Posted on June 1, 2018 by Dissent

BC Local News reports: The Sooke School District is warning parents about a privacy invasion after an employee’s email was hacked. “It has been discovered that the email account of a staff member was compromised by someone outside of the district and used to email out a spam informational link to other staff. Approximately 15…

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Hackers threaten to reveal personal data of 90,000 Canadians caught in bank hack

Posted on May 31, 2018 by Dissent

Pete Evans reports: Hackers have threatened to release personal information for nearly 100,000 customers of two Canadian banks unless the lenders pay a $1-million ransom for its safe return. On Monday, Bank of Montreal and online bank Simplii Financial — owned by CIBC — revealed that they learned over the weekend that the identifying personal information of a combined 90,000 different…

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Court rejects prosecution’s request for longer sentence, sentences Karim Baratov to 5 years plus a $250,000 fine

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Dissent

SAN FRANCISCO – Karim Baratov, aka Kay, aka Karim Taloverov, aka Karim Akehmet Tokbergenov, 23, was sentenced to 60 months in prison and ordered to pay a $250,000 fine, which encompasses all of his remaining assets. The sentence was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Alex G. Tse for the Northern District of California, Assistant Attorney…

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BMO and CIBC-owned Simplii Financial reveal hacks of customer data

Posted on May 28, 2018 by Dissent

Pete Evans reports: Two Canadian banks warned customers Monday that they have been the targets of hackers, and the personal information of tens of thousands of customers may have been stolen. CIBC-owned Simplii Financial was the first to warn on Monday morning that hackers had accessed the personal and account information of more than 40,000 of the bank’s…

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Hacker Steals $1.35 Million From Cryptocurrency Trading App Taylor

Posted on May 28, 2018 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: The creators of the Taylor cryptocurrency trading app claim that an unidentified hacker has stolen around $1.35 million worth of Ether from the company’s wallets. The hack allegedly took place on Tuesday, last week, on May 22. The Taylor team says the hacker somehow “got access to one of our devices and…

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