Mazhar Farooqui reports an update to a hack and data dump involving InvestBank customers: The cyber criminal who hacked into a Sharjah bank last month has gone on the rampage. After the bank refused to give into his blackmail and pay $3 million in ransom money, the criminal Hacker Buba has posted the confidential details…
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Three Men Arrested In Hacking And Spamming Scheme; Targeted Personal Information Of 60 Million People
Three men from Florida, New Jersey, and Maryland were charged today with a wide-ranging computer hacking and identity theft scheme that compromised the personally identifiable information (PII) of millions of people and generated more than $2 million in illegal profits, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Timothy Edward Livingston, 30, of Boca Raton, Florida; Tomasz…
UK: Arrest made in VTech hack
There’s been an arrest in connection with the VTech hack that made headlines for involving 6.4 million children’s profiles. Much of the early disclosure about the hack was due to the hacker reaching out to Motherboard to tell them what he had done and what he had obtained. Thankfully, he seemed more interesting in exposing the infosecurity problem than…
Providence officials: No sensitive information stolen during website hack
Annie Shalvey has an update on a hack previously noted on this site: Providence officials are working to determine who hacked the city’s website on Saturday. A screen grab of the site over the weekend showed a hacker offering to sell “all sensitive data and database” collected. City officials said Monday the hacker asked for a $1,500…
Anonymous Hacks European Space Agency Domains
Waqas writes: The online hacktivist Anonymous has breached the subdomains of the European Space Agency website and leaked personal and login credentials of thousands of subscribers and officials — The reason for targeting the agency? Well, ”We did it for the Lulz” says Anonymous. […] he data has been divided into three files which include site’s database, full…
Hacker Claims to Have Taken Sensitive Data from City of Providence, Rhode Island
Uh oh. GoLocalProv reports: The City of Providence’s website has been hacked and the hacker has posted an ominous message claiming to have control of sensitive data and that the data is for sale. It is unknown what data, if any, is under the control of the City of Providence, but as three years ago the City…