“If history repeats itself, HBO may NEVER be the same Again. Winter Really is here” HB-Old is Dying……. — From an Email from the HBO Hackers This evening, the hackers who grabbed headlines last week by announcing their hack of HBO, released more files and more evidence of how thoroughly they may have ransacked some…
Category: Business Sector
Man Who Hacked his Former Employer Gets 18-Month Prison Sentence
Dark Reading reports: A federal court sentenced a Tennessee man to an 18-month prison sentence and ordered him to pay $172,394 in restitution, following his breach into a former employer’s network and copying of emails in order to give his new company a competitive edge, according to the US Department of Justice. Jason Needham, 45,…
Car lease companies’ poor cyber security exposed over 180,000 drivers
DutchNews.nl reports: Cyber security at some 50 car lease companies operating in the Netherlands was so bad that private details about at least 180,000 company car drivers was easily accessed by an IT firm, the AD said on Monday. The leak was discovered by Sliedrecht-based company ESET which was looking for a new company car…
FireEye: “31337 Hackers” did not breach network or analyst’s computers or devices
On July 31, a group calling themselves ” 31337 Hackers” leaked data and files purportedly hacked from an analyst working for Mandiant, the breach investigation division of FireEye. Why they had targeted the one analyst was not revealed, but it was presented as just the opening salvo in what was described as a campaign, #LeakTheAnalyst. Today, FireEye…
Big data breach unmasks Bloomberg chat room users
Kevin Dugan reports: Nearly one thousand Bloomberg terminal users participating in an anonymous chat room had their identities unmasked this week when a London investment company sent out a list of the participants — including names and employers — to people in the chat room, The Post has learned. The data breach, one of the…
Not exactly the best-laid plan….
Spoiler alert: so this probably wasn’t the best-planned crime. The New Indian Express reported this in July: In a case of corporate espionage, a computer engineer’s bid to sell his employer’s data to a company, which he thought was a competitor, fell flat when the recipient discovered the two firms are in fact partners, and…