AP reports: Spain’s National Court has agreed to the extradition to the U.S. of a British citizen who allegedly took part in computer attacks, including the July 2020 hacking of Twitter accounts of public figures such as Joseph Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Gates. A court statement Friday said requirements had been met for handing…
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Norway finds a way to recover crypto North Korea pinched in Axie heist
Laura Dobberstein reports: Norwegian authorities announced on Thursday that they had recovered $5.9 million of cryptocurrency stolen in the Axie Infinity hack – an incident widely held to have been perpetrated by the Lazarus Group, which has links to North Korea. The Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (Økokrim)…
Acting Pennsylvania Attorney General Henry Secures $400,000 Settlement with DNA Diagnostics Center Stemming from Data Breach
HARRISBURG – Acting Attorney General Michelle A. Henry today announced a settlement with DNA Diagnostics Center – one of the world’s largest private DNA-testing companies offering diagnostic and genetic testing to help answer relationship, fertility, and health questions – after a data breach exposed the social security numbers of 12,663 Pennsylvanians who were subject to genetic testing…
California Northstate University student and employee data stolen
In a new listing by AvosLocker, the threat actors leak personal information that can make employees’ lives difficult for years to come. In their leak site listing for California Northstate University, AvosLocker claims: We have Student admissions data include Name, Social Security Number, Date Of Birth, Address, Email, Telephone. All College employees W-2 include in…
Airline SAS network hit by hackers, says app was compromised
Marie Mannes reports: Scandinavian airline SAS said it was hit by a cyber attack Tuesday evening and urged customers to refrain from using its app but later said it had fixed the problem. News reports said the hack paralysed the carrier’s website and leaked customer information from its app. Read more at Reuters.
Hackers take down Bahrain airport website
Al Arabiya English with the Associated Press reports: Hackers said they had taken down the website of Bahrain’s international airport on Tuesday which was unavailable until at least 1:45 p.m. GST. It briefly came back online and was down again shortly after. A statement posted online by a group calling itself al-Toufan, or “The Flood”…