Bill Toulas reports: Hackers breached Zacks Investment Research (Zacks) company last year and gained access to personal and sensitive information belonging to 820,000 customers. […] An internal investigation into the incident determined that a threat actor gained access to the network somewhere between November 2021 and August 2022. It is unclear if any data was…
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Alleged French cybercriminal to appear in Seattle on Friday on indictment for conspiracy, computer intrusion, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft
The following is the DOJ’s press release on Sebastien Raoult: Seattle – A 21-year-old French citizen from Epinal, France, will appear tomorrow January 27, 2023, in U.S. District Court in Seattle on a nine-count indictment alleging conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, four counts of wire fraud and three counts…
French national extradited to U.S. as alleged member of ShinyHunters
Sebastien Raoult was extradited today from Morocco to the U.S. in response to an extradition request from the U.S. Raoult was indicted for alleged participation in ShinyHunters criminal activities. No other French nationals who were also indicted have been extradited, and the U.S. has not even sought their extradition. France repeatedly refused efforts by Raoult’s…
Riot Games hack: Source codes of League of Legends and TFT stolen by hackers in latest cyber attack; source code allegedly up for auction
IANS reports: Riot Games was a victim of a recent cyber attack over the weekend. After an analysis of the attack, Riot Games has revealed that the source code for its popular video games League of Legends and TFT (Teamfight Tactics) were stolen in the recent cyber attack. In addition, the source code of a legacy anti-cheat platform was also stolen…
Puma investigates claims of leaking more than 230k customers’ data (updated)
Paulina Okunytė reports: Private data allegedly belonging to more than 230,000 Puma customers in Chile has been found on a hacker forum. A threat actor has listed an 84MB-strong dataset for sale that allegedly belongs to the multinational sportswear manufacturer. The cybercriminal or criminals behind the dataset listing claim that it is from Puma’s Chilean…
LastPass owner GoTo says hackers stole customers’ backups
Carly Page reports: LastPass’ parent company GoTo — formerly LogMeIn — has confirmed that cybercriminals stole customers’ encrypted backups during a recent breach of its systems. The breach was first confirmed by LastPass on November 30. At the time, LastPass chief executive Karim Toubba said an “unauthorized party” had gained access to some customers’ information stored in a third-party…