This was a press release from the Department of Justice on August 20: SAN FRANCISCO – A criminal complaint was filed today in federal court charging Joseph Sullivan with obstruction of justice and misprision of a felony in connection with the attempted cover-up of the 2016 hack of Uber Technologies Incorporated, announced United States Attorney…
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15-year-old Merseyside boy arrested for hacking UK PayPal accounts
TEISS reports: Merseyside Police have arrested, and subsequently released under investigation, a fifteen-year-old boy under the suspicion of hacking into a number of PayPal accounts in the UK earlier this year. Aside from arresting and releasing the fifteen-year-old boy under investigation, Merseyside Police’s Cyber Dependent Crime Unit, along with the Matrix, carried out a search…
Russian arrested for trying to recruit an insider and hack a Nevada company
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US Department of Justice announced charges today against a Russian citizen who traveled to the US in order to recruit and convince an employee of a Nevada company to install malware on their employer’s network in exchange for $1,000,000. According to court documents unsealed today, Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, a 27-year-old Russian, was identified…
Scoot says ‘no data breach’ after Singapore customers not on Guangzhou-bound flight mistakenly get emails about Covid-19 testing
Malay Mail reports: Singapore budget airline Scoot issued a media statement to say that it has mistakenly emailed customers regarding requirements to undertake a Covid-19 test for a flight bound for Guangzhou, China. These included customers who have made no such bookings for the flight. A spokesperson for Scoot, which is a subsidiary of Singapore…
Primary Indian ticket vendor suffers crippling data breach
Jim Wilson writes: One of India’s most popular travel booking hubs was left exposed without adequate security measures, and subsequently, suffered a significant data breach that exposed all production server information and led to the loss of over 43GB of data. The affected Elastic search server was left publicly exposed without password protection or encryption…
38 Japan firms’ authentication data stolen amid surge in teleworkers
Kyodo News reports: Sumitomo Forestry Co., Hitachi Chemical Co. and 36 other Japanese companies had authentication information to access their virtual private networks stolen and leaked by hackers this summer, an information security expert said Tuesday. VPN usage has increased as companies encourage employees to work from home due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The…