Maxine Bernstein reports: A man fired from a McMinnville-based digital marketing company was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in federal prison for launching a cyberattack against his former employer. Kristopher Ives began working for Gearbox Studios in March 2010 as a computer programmer and later as its lead programmer for server architecture…
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Identity and Access Misstep: How an Amazon Engineer Exposed Credentials and More
The UpGuard team reports: UpGuard can now disclose that a repository hosted on GitHub with data from an Amazon Web Services engineer containing personal identity documents and system credentials including passwords, AWS key pairs, and private keys has been secured from public access. The data was committed to a public repository on the morning of…
Khazanah files police report on leak of Malaysia Airlines board papers
The Edge Markets reports: Upset and shocked by what appears to be a leak of the entire board papers on Malaysia Airlines Bhd, Khazanah Nasional Bhd wants police to act. Sources said the country’s sovereign wealth fund lodged a police report on the matter yesterday. The sources said this was not a normal leak of…
Man sentenced 8 years in hard drive “shucking” theft scheme
Jeremy Childs reports: A 42-year-old man was sentenced to eight years in prison for participating in a complex theft scheme of computer hard drives, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday. Peter Cuong Chi Nhan, 42, of El Monte, pleaded guilty to 12 felony counts of organized retail theft, receiving stolen property and conspiracy to…
Microsoft discloses security breach of customer support database
Catalin Cimpanu reports on another leak discovery by Bob Diachenko: Microsoft disclosed today a security breach that took place last month in December 2019. In a blog post today, the OS maker said that an internal customer support database that was storing anonymized user analytics was accidentally exposed online without proper protections between December 5…
Mitsubishi Electric discloses security breach, China is main suspect
Catalin Cimpanu reports: In a short statement published today on its website, Mitsubishi Electric, one of the world’s largest electronics and electrical equipment manufacturing firms, disclosed a major security breach. Although the breach occurred last year, on June 28, and an official internal investigation began in September, the Tokyo-based corporation disclosed the security incident today, only after…