Joseph Cox reports: A hacking group that recently doxed hundreds of government officials, including from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has now built dossiers on tens of thousands of U.S. government officials, including NSA employees, a member of the group told 404 Media. The member said the group…
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UK: ‘Catastrophic’ attack as Russians hack files on EIGHT MoD bases and post them on the dark web
Lydia Veljanovski and Sean Rayment report: Russian hackers have stolen hundreds of sensitive military documents containing details of eight RAF and Royal Navy bases as well as Ministry of Defence staff names and emails – and posted them on the dark web, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. In what has been described as a ‘catastrophic’ security…
Data BreachesProsper Data Breach Impacts 17.6 Million Accounts
Ionut Arghire reports: More than 17 million individuals were likely impacted by a data breach at peer-to-peer lending marketplace Prosper, data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned warns. Prosper disclosed the incident last month, noting that hackers accessed its network and stole confidential, proprietary, and personal information from its systems. According to the US-based…
Oracle silently fixes zero-day exploit leaked by ShinyHunters
Lawrence Abrams reports: Oracle has silently fixed an Oracle E-Business Suite vulnerability (CVE-2025-61884) that was actively exploited to breach servers, with a proof-of-concept exploit publicly leaked by the ShinyHunters extortion group. The flaw was addressed with an out-of-band security update released over the weekend, which Oracle said could be used to access “sensitive resources.” “This…
Capita hit with £14m fine for personal data breach in 2023 cyber attack
The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Capita plc and Capita Pension Solutions Ltd a combined £14m following a cyber attack in April 2023 which saw hackers gain access to over 6m people’s data. Stroud News & Journal reports: Outsourcing giant Capita has been fined £14 million by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for failing to…
In a few days, the PowerSchool hacker will learn his sentence, and his life as he has known it will end. (1)1)
In November 2021, when “g0retrance” defaced the website of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) with a message saying “PWNED,” the hacker, who also used the moniker “netsaosa,” left a message under it “should have listened to my emails instead of ignoring me … don’t worry, this is harmless. just to get ur attention :)” Boston.com…