Muhammad Irfan reports: MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – 26th May, 2021) Hackers have stolen at least 76,000 email addresses from Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in a government data leak, NHK reported on Wednesday. According to the Japanese broadcaster, criminals used the ProjectWEB information-sharing software. Read more on UrduPoint.
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OH: Marietta City Schools Email Hack
Christopher Schmitt reports: The Marietta Police Department is investigating a number of Marietta City School employees’ emails being hacked. It was just released that Marietta Superintendent Will Hampton reached out to the Marietta Police last week. It was reported to the police that a number of employees’ email accounts could have been compromised since 2018….
NH: Sentenced to Over a Year in Prison for Hacking Police Department in Revenge for Drug Arrest
Wayne Kenney, 31, of Hooksett, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison for unauthorized access to a computer and damage to protected computers, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today. According to court documents and statements made in court, in early 2015, Kenney…
Japan’s Biggest Dating App Hack Exposes Two Million Accounts
Shoko Oda reports: A leading Japanese matchmaking app was hacked, likely exposing the personal information of more than 1.7 million account holders, in the latest high-profile online attack. Net Marketing Co., which runs the Omiai dating app, said that it found evidence of unauthorized access to its servers in April. Among the data exposed were photos of ID…
Update: Kirill Victorovich Firsov Sentenced to 30 Months for Running DEER.io Site Selling Stolen, Counterfeit and Hacked Accounts
The following is a press release from the government with an update to the case of Kirill Victorovich Firsov. Firsov, the administrator of the DEER.io platform, was arrested on March 7, 2020 and pleaded guilty on January 21 of this year. The DEER.io platform was shut down days after Firsov’s arrest. SAN DIEGO – Kirill…
Email breach at Beech Acres resulted in private client information being obtained
Brook Endale reports that Beech Acres Parenting Center discovered employee email accounts with personal and sensitive nformation had been hacked and accessed between Dec. 29 and March 18. The information in the emails included: clients’ names, dates of birth and client account numbers. Treatment or clinical information such as dates of service and provider names were…