So this seems a bit…. extreme. See what you think. Nouran Salahieh reports: A Texas man was found guilty Thursday of hacking into the Los Angeles Superior Court computer system and then using it to send about 2 million phishing emails, the U.S. Department of Justice said. A jury found 33-year-old Oriyomi Sadiq Aloba guilty…
Category: Government Sector
The TAD GROUP Owner Is Currently Searched for in the Schengen Area
This Bulgarian hack gets more bizarre by tthe day. Novinite reports: The TAD GROUP owner Ivan Todorov is being searched for in the Schengen area, NOVA TV reported. Ivan Todorov is accused of instigating the of personal data leak from the NRA which affected millions of Bulgarians. He said he could not say for sure…
A data breach forced this family to move home and change their names
Charlie Osborne reports on one of those cases where a data breach results in such a serious risk of harm or trouble that people have to move or significantly change their lives: As reported by the Hackney Gazette, a family in the area adopted a child and the details of who they were and where…
Bulgaria Police Zeroed In Some Data Breach Suspects
Al Restar reports: The Bulgarian police are investigating last week’s attack on the country’s tax systems. The suspect — who’s already in custody — is a member of the same hacking group that carried out the country’s most significant data breach in history. Police said that one senior officer in the cybersecurity firm Tad Group…
Gov. Edwards Activates State Resources to Assist With Ongoing Cybersecurity Incident
A very unusual — and serious response to a threat to government cybersecurity. Thanks to Doug Levin @k12cybermap for pointing us to this press release: July 24 — Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards issued a state-wide Emergency Declaration in response to an ongoing cybersecurity incident that is affecting several local government agencies. The declaration makes…
AU: ‘Serious breach’: Real identities of Gobbo handlers sent to lawyers of underworld clients
Some breaches can put lives at risk. Chris Vedelago, Tammy Mills and Cameron Houston report: The real identities of Nicola Gobbo’s handlers have been accidentally sent to the lawyers of her former underworld clients by the royal commission that is investigating her role as a police informer. Protecting the names of the covert operatives from…