May 19 – Roman Seleznev, of Vladivostok, Russia, has been arraigned on federal cyber fraud charges associated with the 2008 hack and theft of banking credentials from RBS Worldpay, a payment processing company located in Atlanta, Georgia. Seleznev was indicted by a federal grand jury on December 22, 2014. “In 2008, an American credit card processor…
Category: Hack
Font sharing site DaFont has been hacked, exposing thousands of accounts
Zack Whittaker reports: A popular font sharing site DaFont.com has been hacked, exposing the site’s entire database of user accounts. Usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords of 699,464 user accounts were stolen in the breach, carried out earlier this month, by a hacker who would not divulge his name. The passwords were scrambled with the…
Zomato Hacked; 17 Million Accounts Sold on Dark Web
Waqas writes: HackRead found out a vendor going by the online handle of “nclay” is claiming to have hacked Zomato and selling the data of its 17 million registered users on a popular Dark Web marketplace. The database includes emails and password hashes of registered Zomato users while the price set for the whole package is USD…
TN: Williamson County Schools warns parents of security breach in student/teacher software
A follow-up on a breach previously noted on this site. I imagine we’ll see a number of these from school districts in the weeks and months to come. Williamson County Schools sent a message to parents Friday warning about a security breach of it’s (sic) Edmodo system putting student and parent information at risk. The…
“We’re not responsible:” TheDarkOverlord denies hacking Disney’s new Pirates movie
Since June of 2016, when they somewhat burst on the scene, there has been a lot written about the hacker/collective known as TheDarkOverlord (TDO). A lot of it appears to be just plain inaccurate, but in some cases, the inaccurate reporting can be traced back to misleading communications or tweets by TDO. As a recent example of miscommunication creating an inaccurate…
Hacker Steals Millions of User Account Details from Education Platform Edmodo
Hmm. I missed this one by Joseph Cox last week: A hacker has stolen millions of user account details from popular education platform Edmodo, and the data is apparently for sale on the so-called dark web. Teachers, students and parents use Edmodo to work on lesson plans, assign homework, and more. The organization claims to…