AP reports: A junior high school student reportedly hacked into the email system of Gilbert Public Schools and sent inappropriate messages to other students. District officials said the Highland Junior High student got access to the teacher’s login information and emailed messages to other students over the weekend. Read more on The Arizona Republic. And the…
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Ukrainian hacker admits hacks of MarketWired, PRN, and Business Wire press releases for securities fraud scheme
A Ukrainian hacker today admitted his role in an international scheme to hack into three business newswires, steal yet-to-be published press releases containing non-public financial information, and use the information to make trades that allegedly generated approximately $30 million in illegal profits, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Vadym Iermolovych, 28, of Kiev, Ukraine, pleaded…
Nulled.io crime forum breach could cause a world of pain for members
Dan Goodin reports: A website that openly facilitated the brokering of compromised passwords, stolen bitcoins, and other sensitive data has been hacked, exposing login data, IP addresses, e-mail addresses, purchase histories, and private messages for some 500,000 members. Nulled.io, a hacker forum that used the tagline “expect the unexpected,” was compromised earlier this month in…
Data breach affecting more than 50,000 reported by Medical Colleagues of Texas
The Houston Chronicle reports: Hackers breached the computer network of a doctors’ group in Katy, potentially accessing upward of 50,000 medical records and personnel files, a lawyer for the practice said Wednesday. “It’s a large number of records,” said Dallas attorney Lindsay Nickle, who represents the group, Medical Colleagues of Texas. Computer forensics experts were…
Swift Warns of New Hacker Attack on Bank After Bangladesh Heist
Trista Kelley reports: Swift, the inter-bank messaging system embroiled in one of the largest cyber heists in history, warned customers that hackers have struck again, attacking a commercial bank client that it didn’t name. The details of a second hack follow a cyber theft in February, when more than $80 million was stolen from Bangladesh’s account at…
Besa Mafia: Hitman For Hire Site Hacked, Data Dumped
RiskBased Security writes: News reports of websites being hacked and data being leaked has become an all too common occurrence. Most of the press focuses on popular or well known sites, rarely touching on leaks from sites that reside in the recesses of the “deep web” or “dark web”, accessible only by means such as…