Justin Baer reports: Morgan Stanley suspected that Russian hackers stole client data from a former financial adviser who pleaded guilty to illegally accessing the bank’s computers and taking the information home with him. Galen Marsh, who was fired from the Wall Street firm in January for viewing and copying account information on other advisers’ clients, pleaded guilty…
Category: Hack
UK: Students left without internet after massive DDoS against Network Janet
This story appears in The Express with the headline, “Students left without internet after Islamic State ‘hack’ major computer network.” But who says it’s Daesh that’s responsible for this? There is no official attribution and no one’s claimed responsibility. Is The Express jumping the gun with that headline? The only ones who seem to be…
NullCrew hacker pleads guilty
Jon Seidel reports that NullCrew member Timothy J. French pleaded guilty this morning in federal court in Chicago. NullCrew’s attacks on Bell Canada, University of Virginia, Spokeo, Comcast, and other entities have been covered in the past on this site (search NullCrew), and many of NullCrew’s “Fuck the System!” newsletters and YouTube videos remain available online. During one…
Blog of News Site “The Independent” Hacked, Leads to TeslaCrypto Ransomware
Joseph C. Chen reports: NOTE: This is a developing story. Please watch this space for updates as we continue to dig into the technical details of this attack. The blog page of one of the leading media sites in the United Kingdom, “The Independent” has been compromised, which may put its millions of readers at risk of getting…
UK: NexusMods reports database breach
Chris Scott Barr reports: Nexus Mods announced that they had a potential database breach. The breach includes information for about 6 million users, but there’s good news. The database that was breached was last updated on July 22nd, 2013. So if you’ve registered for an account after that date, you’re probably safe. Also, if you’ve…
Wetherspoons Hacker Speaks: ‘I Did It Simply Because I Could’
Joseph Cox reports: Last week, Wetherspoons, a popular UK pub chain, announced that one of its websites had been breached. The hacker got away with the names, dates of birth, email addresses, and phone numbers of potentially 656,723 customers, as well as the partial payment card data of 100 people. Then late on Monday night, the hacker responsible,…