Jessica A. York reports: Former Santa Cruz homeless activist “Commander X” has been deported from Mexico to face more than decade-old allegations of maliciously hacking into the county’s computer system. el file) Christopher Doyon, 56, appeared Monday before Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to face indictment…
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McDonald’s hit by data breach, customer personal data exposed in South Korea, Taiwan
Michelle Chapman reports: McDonald’s has become the latest company to be hit by a data breach after unauthorized activity on its network exposed the personal data of some customers in South Korea and Taiwan. McDonald’s Corp. said Friday that it quickly identified and contained the incident and that a thorough investigation was done. Read mre…
Chief Operating Officer of Network Security Company Charged with Cyberattack on Medical Center
Note: It seems possible that the incident described in DOJ’s press release below is the incident reported by Salted Hash and DataBreaches.net in 2018. According to Singla’s LinkedIn account, he was COO at Securolytics in Atlanta at the time of the Gwinnett breach. A Georgia man was arraigned today on charges arising out of a…
Hackers Steal Wealth of Data from Game Giant EA
Joseph Cox reports: Hackers have broken into gaming giant Electronic Arts, the publisher of Battlefield, FIFA, and The Sims, and stole a wealth of game source code and related internal tools, Motherboard has learned. “You have full capability of exploiting on all EA services,” the hackers claimed in various posts on underground hacking forums viewed…
NY: Arnoff Moving & Storage data breach revealed customer information: What we know
Saba Ali reports: Arnoff Moving & Storage customers may have had their data stolen by hackers as part of a breach, the company said. The company could not say how many customers may have been impacted, how long ago the data may be from, or if the breach was limited to its regional Mid Hudson…
Russian hackers breached Dutch police systems in 2017
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Hackers working on behalf of Russian intelligence services breached the internal network of Dutch police in 2017 during the country’s investigation of the MH-17 crash. The intrusion was kept under wraps by Dutch investigators until this week when multiple sources revealed the incident to Dutch newspaper the Volkskrant. Read more on The Record.