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BGR India’s data hacked, shared on hacking forum: Report

Posted on February 29, 2020 by Dissent

IANS reports: Hackers have reportedly compromised tech company BGR’s (Boy Genius Report) India website and dumped its data containing emails, hashed passwords and other information on the Dark Web. According to data breach monitoring service ‘Under the Breach’, hackers shared SQL databases from unsecured AWS (Amazon Web Services) buckets and one archive belongs to the…

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PH: ‘Comeleak’ hacker cleared of cybercrime charges in largest hack in Philippine history

Posted on February 28, 2020 by Dissent

Nikka G. Valenzuela reports: A Manila court has dismissed the cybercrime case against an information technology graduate who was charged in connection with the hacking of the Commission of Elections (Comelec) website in 2016—the biggest private data leak in Philippine history. Paul Loui Biteng was cleared of criminal charges after the prosecution failed to prove…

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Chinese dissident can sue law firm over hack that exposed information online, judge rules

Posted on February 26, 2020 by Dissent

Debra Cassens Weiss reports:  A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled that a Chinese asylum-seeker can sue the Clark Hill law firm over a 2017 hack that allegedly exposed personal data online. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled last week in the case of Guo Wengui, who describes himself in the malpractice suit as…

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Pacific Specialty Insurance Company notifies plan members of breach that occurred in March, 2019

Posted on February 25, 2020 by Dissent

Once again, we see a timeline where it took a loooong time before an entity actually discloses a breach, but the entity’s explanation involves how long it took to determine who was impacted. In this case, it tood from June 14, when they first became suspicious of activity that had occurred in March until November…

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PayPal Users Hit With Fraudulent ‘Target’ Charges via Google Pay

Posted on February 25, 2020 by Dissent

Lawrence Abrams reports: Hackers are using an unknown method to make fraudulent charges on PayPal accounts linked via GooglePay. These transactions are being charged through Target stores or Starbucks in the United States even though the account holders are in Germany. Starting on February 22nd, numerous people in Germany began reporting [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] that their PayPal…

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Honors mailing list hacked, offensive memes in email chain reported to dean of students

Posted on February 24, 2020 by Dissent

Rachel Sawicki reports: The honors email list for the class of 2022 and 2023 was hacked last week, and the email chain of replies, containing an offensive meme, may have consequences for the student who sent it. […] Michael Chajes, director of the university Honors Program, said that no personal information was compromised and whoever…

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