Luke Harding reports: The whistleblower behind the Panama Papers broke their silence on Friday to explain in detail how the injustices of offshore tax havens drove them to the biggest data leak in history. The source, whose identity and gender remain a secret, denied being a spy. “For the record, I do not work for any government…
Category: Hack
Romanian hacker Guccifer: I breached Clinton server, ‘it was easy’
Catherine Herridge and Pamela K. Browne report on a jail-house interview with Marcel Lehel Lazar, aka, “Guccifer,” about how he hacked then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email server. You read their story on Fox News. If he’s telling the truth, there was nothing very sophisticated about his approach.
FL: Owner of Vanguard Cybersecurity arrested for hacking into state, Lee elections websites
Looks like someone forgot to ask, “Mother, May I?” Ben Brasch reports: An Estero man has been accused of hacking into the state and Lee County elections websites. Officers with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested David Levin, a 31-year-old political consultant and owner of Vanguard Cybersecurity, on three third-degree-felony counts of property crimes. […] Agents accuse Levin of illegally…
Big data breaches found at major email services : expert
Eric Auchard reports: Hundreds of millions of hacked user names and passwords for email accounts and other websites are being traded in Russia’s criminal underworld, a security expert told Reuters. The discovery of 272.3 million stolen accounts included a majority of users of Mail.ru (MAILRq.L), Russia’s most popular email service, and smaller fractions of Google…
Nazareth Area School District: Student hacked into student, teacher data files
Michelle Merlin reports that Nazareth Area School District has sent out about 5,000 letters to families and teachers after discovering that a student accessed data and uploaded it onto a flash drive between 2011 and 2014. District Superintendent Dennis Riker said the old data contained student information from the district’s lunch program as well as information from a…
(CORRECTED) QNB hackers to leak more data of another big bank soon – Kaspersky
It sounds like big trouble is brewing for a bank that has yet to be named. Naushad K. Cherrayil reports: The hackers who attacked Qatar National Bank last week have attacked a second bank and are set to leak more data, a security expert told Gulf News on Monday. “They have announced that they are going to…