Aqil Hamzah reports: About 24,000 customers of broadband service provider WhizComms, or roughly half the company’s customer base, had their personal information stolen by an external party in a data breach incident detected on April 21. The affected people received e-mail on Wednesday informing them that a third party had accessed the firm’s Web server and downloaded…
Category: Hack
North Korea behind SNUH hacking in 2021: police
Lee Han-Soo reports: The personal information leak at Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) two years ago was found to be the work of North Korean hackers. The National Police Agency’s National Office of Investigation has confirmed that a cyber attack orchestrated by North Korean hackers infiltrated the internal network of SNUH through seven domestic and…
Deconstructing a Cybersecurity Event — Dragos
Dragos writes: On May 8, 2023, a known cybercriminal group attempted and failed at an extortion scheme against Dragos. No Dragos systems were breached, including anything related to the Dragos Platform. Dragos has a culture of transparency and a commitment to providing educational material to the community. This is why it’s important to us to…
U.K. Citizen Extradited and Pleads Guilty to Cyber Crime Offenses
A U.K. citizen pleaded guilty today in New York to his role in cyberstalking and multiple schemes that involve computer hacking, including the July 2020 hack of Twitter. Joseph James O’Connor, aka PlugwalkJoe, 23, was extradited from Spain on April 26. “O’Connor’s criminal activities were flagrant and malicious, and his conduct impacted multiple people’s lives….
NL: Suspect arrested after data theft and threat
Dutch police have made another arrest involving an alleged hacker. It sounds like they identified and arrested this individual fairly quickly, which raises questions about whether this suspect had terrible OpSec or if the police had other sources of leads that enabled them to identify and arrest them. There is nothing in their release that…
Roskomnadzor’s structure was fined for improperly divulging employee information
Annabelle Custodio reports: The Main Radio Frequency Center under Roskomnadzor was fined for leaking employee data, according to the records in the Justice of the Peace file cabinet No. 456. A notice regarding the judgment “on the imposition of a administrative penalty” appeared in the file cabinet on May 2, but the substance of the…