Alexander J. Martin reports: Lauri Love, the alleged hacktivist from Stradishall, Suffolk, England, has been granted permission to appeal against his extradition to the United States. The High Court has today granted Love, 32, permission to appeal against his handover to US authorities, which was initially agreed in Westminster Magistrates’ Court last September. Read more…
Category: Government Sector
Hackers reportedly disable Newark computers and demand $30K ‘ransom’
Paul Milo reported this yesterday: Hackers have disabled some City of Newark computers and are now demanding about $30,000 worth of the online currency Bitcoin to render them operable once again, TAPInto reported Monday. The computers were infected over the weekend with an encryption that affects nearly all files that operate on a desktop, according to…
#AadhaarLeaks: A list of Aadhaar data leaks
I started covering Aadhaar years ago on PogoWasRight.org as a data protection mega-disaster waiting to happen. Those early posts are no longer available online, but I’ve continued to watch for news on its implementation and concerns. And while India’s government keeps reiterating that everything is secure and fine, I keep seeing breach/leak reports. So I…
Aadhaar data leak in Jharkhand raises doubts, again: Here are the details
Business Standard reports: An incident in Jharkhand again seems to have raised some serious questions of Aadhaar’s data-breach vulnerabilities. The Aadhaar numbers of hundreds of thousands of pension beneficiaries were suspected to have been illegally displayed on a government website in Jharkhand, in violation of the Aadhaar Act, The Indian Express reported. The lapse, apparently, occured due…
KE: Ronald Nsale denies hacking into Safaricom system
An Ugandan man was on Friday charged with hacking into Safaricom’s system. Ronald Nsale had been in police custody and was presented in court following allegations that he had hacked into the electoral commission’s systems. It was alleged that he was working with the Islamic State group and was charged with unauthorized access to a…
30,000 London gun owners hit by Met Police ‘data breach’
Gareth Corfield reports: London gun owners are asking questions of the Metropolitan Police after the force seemingly handed the addresses of 30,000 firearm and shotgun owners to a direct mail marketing agency for a commercial firm’s advertising campaign. The first any of the affected people knew about the blunder was when the leaflet (pictured below)…