Asian Correspondent staff report: Hackers on Wednesday leaked a trove of data files stolen from Thai prison websites in their ongoing protest over the conviction and treatment of two Burmese men sentenced to death for murdering two British tourists in Koh Tao in 2014. Associating themselves with the “Anonymous” collective of hackers, they claimed to have obtained…
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University of Central Florida hack compromises 63,000 Social Security numbers
UCF posted the following statement today: An intrusion into the University of Central Florida’s computer network has resulted in unauthorized access to certain personal information of some current and former students and employees. After UCF discovered the unauthorized access in January, university officials immediately reported the incident to law enforcement and launched an internal investigation…
UK: Computer hacker avoids jail after targeting young people online for entertainment
Here’s another case in the UK where you’re likely to ponder what the sentence might have been here in the U.S. The Warrington Guardian reports: A self-confessed IT geek who hacked into strangers’ computers for his own entertainment has escaped an immediate jail term. Ryan Thompson, of Hughes Avenue, Orford, was sentenced to six months in…
Cn: Hackers Steal Account Details of 20.6 Mln Taobao Users
Taobao, the Chinese equivalent of eBay, was reportedly hacked in October 2015, but it doesn’t seem to have made U.S. news. Marbridge Consulting writes: Police in Zhejiang province recently convened a press conference to announce that a group of hackers obtained information pertaining to approximately 99 mln accounts on Alibaba Group’s C2C e-commerce site Taobao….
NASA Denies Hackers Hijacked Its Drone
There’s an update to a previously claimed hack involving NASA. Thomas CLaburn reports that NASA is investigating a claimed hack, but denies that its drone was hacked: “Control of our Global Hawk aircraft was not compromised,” said Beutel. “NASA has no evidence to indicate the alleged hacked data are anything other than already publicly available…
South American Hacktivist Leaks Data from Colombian Government Websites
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The hacker known as Hanom1960 has breached, stole, and leaked information from Colombia’s Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications and Ministry of National Education. Hanom, who claims he’s part of the newer generation of LulsZec members, made its debut on the hacking scene last week, after hacking and dumping data from the Costa…