Alex Rose reports: The University of Colorado Boulder is sending emails to roughly 30,000 former and current students that have been impacted by a data breach, according to a release from the university. Most of the people impacted are no longer CU students or employees, according to the release. The university said the third-party software, provided…
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Fullerton Health vendor’s server hacked; personal details of customers sold online
David Sun reports: Personal details of Fullerton Health customers were stolen by hackers and hawked online, after a vendor of the private healthcare group suffered a breach earlier this month. The data was put up for sale on hacking forums from Oct 11, and could be bought for US$600 (S$810) in Bitcoin. However, checks by…
SolarWinds Hackers Continue to Hit Technology Companies, Says Microsoft
Robert McMillan and Dustin Volz report: The Russia-linked hackers behind last year’s compromise of a wide swath of the U.S. government and scores of private companies, including SolarWinds Corp. have stepped up their attacks in recent months, breaking into technology companies in an effort to steal sensitive information, cybersecurity experts said. In a campaign that dates…
Pakistani agents hack Sambalpur University website
WCE3 reports: In a shocking incident, some Pakistani agents reportedly hacked the official website of Sambalpur University in Odisha today. According to reports, the University’s website’s page ‘grievance.suniv.ac.in’ was hacked by the agents who wrote ‘hacked by Devil Killer.’ Hacking of the website came to the fore as some students were using it for their…
In: Interstate cyber hackers’ gang busted; 6 held
TNS reports: In a major breakthrough, a joint team of the STF, Sonepat, Gurugram and Panipat police busted an inter-state computer hacker gang involved in getting online competitive exams cleared and arrested six persons in this regard. […] He said they confessed that they had got online and offline exams of Railway clerk, MTS, NIIT,…
Hacker steals government ID database for Argentina’s entire population
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A hacker has breached the Argentinian government’s IT network and stolen ID card details for the country’s entire population, data that is now being sold in private circles. The hack, which took place last month, targeted RENAPER, which stands for Registro Nacional de las Personas, translated as National Registry of Persons. Read more on…