Kim Hjelmgaard and Elizabeth Weise report: Information from at least 500 million Yahoo accounts was stolen from the company in 2014 and the company believes that a state-sponsored actor was behind the hack. The information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions…
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Getting caught up on #OperationSafePharma
So I am slow to find out about this, and wouldn’t have found out at all if it hadn’t been for Softpedia’s Catalin Cimpanu helpfully pointing to this, but AntiSec-Italia, anItalian Anonymous-affiliated group, has apparently been breaching the websites of healthcare institutes in Italy. To get up to speed on early history of #OpSafePharma, start with…
Kennesaw State student hacks system, changes grades, steals data: Police
Fox5 reports: Police have arrested a Kennesaw State University student accused of hacking into the school’s system to change grades and steal personal data. Cobb County Police say Chase Arthur Hughes illegally accessed the university’s Owl Express program to alter his grades and the grades of four other students. Police say he also stole the…
MoDaCo acknowledges January breach impacting 879,703 accounts
So after HaveIBeenPwned started notifying users of a MoDaCo breach, and users started complaining on MoDaCo’s forum as to why they hadn’t been informed of the breach by MoDaCo and would MoDaCo please delete their accounts, MoDaCo issued the following statement: Earlier today a number of users contacted us to inform us that data breach tracking…
CORRECTION: The massive hack that wasn’t
UPDATE 9-21-2016 Over the past two days, DataBreaches.net provided the First Bank of Ohio with samples from two files that “Fear” claimed were from them. They have firmly denied that either file is theirs: These have nothing to do with us. The second group are businesses that are applying for liquor licenses in Ohio. The…
OK: Saint Francis Investigating Hack by Seeming TDO Copycats
Well, Saint Francis Health System ignored multiple inquiries from me about the alleged hack I reported on recently, but now they’ve apparently issued a statement. Amy Slanchik of Newson6 in Oklahoma reports, in part: Roberts said after working with forensics investigators, they discovered the information taken from the server appears to be a list of about…