Amy Clancy reports: KIRO 7 has uncovered documents detailing the Kirkland Police Department’s ongoing investigation into how a suspect, or ring of suspects, was able to hijack the school email account of Northwest University’s chief financial officer. The hacking of CFO John Jordan’s email account has the Kirkland college out nearly $60,000. According to detectives, the thieves secretly…
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City Of Tulsa Systems Hacked
NewsOn6 reports: The City of Tulsa confirms computer hackers broke into several City controlled accounts but says it appears there have been no effects on city systems. According to city officials, six “cloud-based” systems were compromised but they were immediately disabled. Mayor G.T. Bynum says this is not the first time something like this has…
Ph: NPC orders Wendy’s PH to inform users affected by data breach
ABS-CBN reports: The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has ordered Wendy’s Philippines to notify users affected by the data breach on its website on April 23. The order dated May 2 was released after the fast food chain notified the commission that its website was infiltrated and that personal data of users were obtained and published…
Video of the moment ‘Courvoisier’ was captured on train
Richard Spillett reports: This is the moment computer hacker dubbed ‘Courvoisier’ was arrested for carrying out cyber attacks on some of Britain’s top companies before selling customers’ data on the dark web. Police seized £500,000 in Bitcoin from Grant West after discovering he had obtained the personal data of millions of people and the credit…
Korean Overwatch Hackers Arrested, Hit With $10,000 Fine
Nathan Grayson reports: South Korea’s new law that takes aim at those who hack online games in order to cheat at them, which went into effect last June, has hackers in hot water. Earlier this year, 13 Overwatch offenders were arrested, and now two have received their sentences. According to a post from Blizzard Korea—which…
APT28 Hackers Caught Hijacking Legitimate LoJack Software
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Security researchers have found tainted versions of the legitimate LoJack software that appeared to have been sneakily modified to allow hackers inside companies that use it. Researchers say domains found inside the tainted LoJack instances have been previously tied to other hacking operations carried out by APT28, a codename used to describe…