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Baseball Hacking Case Ends with Prison

Posted on July 19, 2016 by Dissent

Jeremy Kirk reports: A former St. Louis Cardinals scouting director has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for illegally peeking at a player-drafting database for the Houston Astros – a hefty term for a distinctly unique hacking case. Christopher Correa, 36, was accused of illegally accessing Ground Control, a cloud-based database that held…

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Will Armscor hack result in any fallout?

Posted on July 17, 2016 by Dissent

So maybe I should have reported on this one sooner, but after I saw some initial denials, I didn’t think it was going to be a big deal. It may be a bit bigger than I thought. On July 11, HackRead reported: The operation OpAfrica has found another victim, this time, it’s the Pretoria-based arms procurement agency Armscor Armaments Corporation…

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Ubuntu forums hacked

Posted on July 15, 2016 by Dissent

Chris Mills reports: Canonical announced today that its popular Ubuntu forums have been hacked. Attackers appear to have gather the  user names, emails and IP addresses of two million users. Some passwords may have been accessed, although they were encrypted. The company was at pains to point out that the Ubuntu code and update mechanisms…

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Technology firm hack compromised clients’ EHR records: The Dark Overlord

Posted on July 15, 2016 by Dissent

On July 12, the hacker known as “The Dark Overlord” (TDO) offered the source code, software signing keys, and customer license database for a firm that develops and markets software that among other things, implements the HL7 standards. The entity was not named in the listing on TheRealDeal Market. As I reported on July 12, I was…

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Shadi.com hacked and data dumped, but do they even know?

Posted on July 14, 2016 by Dissent

From LeakedSource: Shortly after the hack of MuslimMatch.com, Shadi.com another dating site was hacked around July 10th, 2016. LeakedSource has obtained and added a copy of this data to its ever-growing searchable repository of leaked data. This data set contains 2,035,020 records. Each record contains an email address and one password. Passwords were stored with no…

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Suspected Right Sector Hackers Breach Polish Ministry, Demand $50,000

Posted on July 14, 2016 by Dissent

Sputnik News reports: A group of hackers, who portray themselves as members of the Right Sector, an Ukrainian nationalist organization, outlawed in Russia, carried out a cyberattack on the Polish Defense Ministry database and demanded Warsaw to pay $50,000 for the database not to be made public, local media reported on Thursday citing Twitter account of the group. According to Gazeta Wyborcza, the hackers had released a…

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