It seems like only weeks ago that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia was trumpeting the arraignment of Daniel Kaye, who had been indicted last year. Oh wait, it was only weeks ago. Kaye, also known as “Popopret,” “Bestbuy,” “TheRealDeal,” “Logger,” “David Cohen,” “Marc Chapon,” “UserL0ser,” “Spdrman,” “Dlinch Kravitz,” “Fora Ward,”…
Category: Hack
New York-Presbyterian Hospital discloses breach affecting 12,000 patients
New York-Presbyterian Hospital posted a notice on their website on November 11. The incident has not yet shown up on HHS’s public breach tool, but undoubtedly will. Here is the description of the incident, as provided by the hospital: On September 8, 2022, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s data security monitors received an alert of suspicious activity on…
Whoosh confirms data breach after hackers sell 7.2M user records
Bill Toulas reports: The Russian scooter-sharing service Whoosh has confirmed a data breach after hackers started to sell a database containing the details of 7.2 million customers on a hacking forum. Whoosh is Russia’s leading urban mobility service platform, operating in 40 cities with over 75,000 scooters. On Friday, a threat actor began selling the…
UK: Hacked evidence and stolen data swamp English courts
Franz Wild, Ed Siddons, Simon Lock, Jonathan Calvert, and George Arbuthnott report: A multimillion-pound high court case between an authoritarian Gulf emirate and an Iranian-American businessman has revealed how hacked evidence is being used by leading law firms to advance their clients’ claims. It includes allegations that a former Metropolitan Police officer hired Indian hackers…
Kraken CSO claims to Identify the Hacker Who Stole $600 Million From FTX
Delma Wilson reports on the dramatic developments in the cryptocurrency market after FTX announced a massive theft, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried declared bankruptcy, and resigned. Satoshi Stacker tweeted that Kraken should be able to track down the thief/hacker because they had used Kraken to offload the stolen funds throughout the hack: BREAKING: The FTX ”Hacker”…
Bahraini websites hacked hours before parliamentary election
[N] Gulf reports: Hackers targeted official websites in Bahrain just hours before the start of a parliamentary election on Saturday, the Interior Ministry said. The ministry did not identify the websites targeted, but the country’s state-run Bahrain News Agency (BNA) could not be reached online, nor could the website for Bahrain’s parliament. “Websites are being…