Nate Nelson reports: Hackers breached a database maintained by Pilot Credentials, a recruiting company based in Austin, Texas, resulting in the theft of personal information from more than 8,000 pilot applicants for American Airlines and Southwest Airlines. The compromised data includes names, birth dates, Social Security and passport numbers, as well as driver- and pilot-license…
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LetMeSpy, a phone tracking app spying on thousands, says it was hacked
Zack Whittaker reports: A hacker has stolen the messages, call logs and locations intercepted by a widely used phone monitoring app called LetMeSpy, according to the company that makes the spyware. The phone monitoring app, which is used to spy on thousands of people using Android phones around the world, said in a notice on its…
UK: Prosecution of tracing agent for illegally obtaining personal information
An enforcement action and prosecution was announced by the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office this week: A former tracing agent pleaded guilty and was fined for illegally obtaining personal information to check if customers of a high street bank could repay their debts. Michael Isaacs, 80, from Epsom, Surrey was the sole director of Datasearch Services…
Four Nigerian Nationals Extradited To The United States To Face Charges In Wire Fraud And Identity Theft Conspiracy
Tampa, Florida – On June 22, United States Attorney Roger Handberg announced the successful extraditions of Akinola Taylor of the United Kingdom, Olayemi Adafin of the United Kingdom, Olakunle Oyebanjo of the United Kingdom, and Kazeem Olanrewaju Runsewe of Sweden. These individuals have been charged in the Middle District of Florida with conspiracy to commit…
Hacker responsible for 2020 Twitter breach sentenced to prison
Zack Whittaker reports the update to the case of Joseph James O’Connor, a British national who was extradited to the U.S. from Spain and pleaded guilty in May: Three years after one of the most visible hacks in recent history played out in real-time in front of millions of Twitter users, one of the hackers responsible…
Oreo cookie maker says crooks gobbled up staff info
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: Mondelez International has warned 51,000 of its past and present employees that their personal information has been stolen from a law firm hired by the Oreo and Ritz cracker giant. To be clear, the miscreants didn’t infiltrate Mondelez’s IT estate: they broke into Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP‘s network. And as…