Peter Hall reports: Police on the trail of two missing laptops and a gold necklace followed it to the Montgomery County home of a self-described computer hacker who claims responsibility for what could be one of the largest virtual currency heists of all time, court documents say. Theodore Price of Hatfield told a local detective…
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Romanian Authorities Apprehend Three Men Trying to Sell Stolen Client Data
Jeff Patterson reports: Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) has successfully detained three individuals who attempted to sell stolen information from Cyprus-based brokerage. Iliescu Stefan Virgil, Roşoiu Darie Leone, and [redacted], had succeeded in obtaining sensitive data from the brokerage group, which it intended to sell for upwards of €80k. All three…
Hacker Steals $7 Million Worth of Ethereum From CoinDash Platform
Catalin Cimpanu reports: An unknown hacker has taken over the official website of the CoinDash platform and modified an Ethereum wallet address during the company’s ICO (Initial Coin Offering). The hack took place today, just three minutes after CoinDash launched its ICO, which is something similar to an IPO. Read more on BleepingComputer. CoinDash did…
Schools’ information up for sale on darknet?
Another listing I stumbled across while browsing what’s for sale on the darknet offered emails from what the seller claimed are .edu, dadeschools.net, and k12.wi.us, among other sources. The vendor, “dnu2k,” was asking $16.94 and claimed to have “Only 1 in stock!” I contacted the vendor to try to obtain more information, and (s)he replied that…
In: NIFT student arrested for hacking Institute website
Local Police arrested an eighth semester NIFT student last evening for hacking the official website of National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) and tampering with the marks-sheets, police said here today.Kangra Sub Divisional Police officer Surinder Sharma told UNI this evening that NIFT Director S Balasidartha had lodged a complaint with police today that the…
Atlanta neurological clinic notifies patients of ransomware attack AND an older hack
In the process of investigating a ransomware incident, Peachtree Neurological Clinic discovered an earlier hack going back to February 2016. They posted the following notice on their web site: Peachtree Neurological Clinic, P.C. (“PNC”) of Atlanta, Georgia has advised its patients of a privacy event that may have compromised certain personal information. The events are…