Phoebe Eckersley reports: The parents of a teenager who hacked into TalkTalk and sold personal data for cryptocurrency have been spared jail. Carlie, 44, and Jason Gunton, 45, whose son Elliott Gunton was convicted, were given suspended sentences for helping transfer funds on behalf of their son, it was heard at Norwich Crown Court today….
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MO: Hacked social media account leads to Jackson school threat
Jay Wolz reports: Jackson police are investigating a Tuesday night incident in which a post on a social media account indicated a potential firearms threat at Jackson High School. According to Jackson schools public information officer Merideth Pobst, a post appeared Tuesday evening on the social media platform Snapchat. The post, she said, gave the…
AU: Inside a massive cyber hack that risks compromising leaders across the globe
Garrett Davis reports: One email was all it took for hackers to steal some of the most personal information from people potentially now in high-ranking roles across the globe. The cyber attack was so sophisticated it didn’t even need the person to click on a link or open a document to compromise decades worth of…
Saint Mary’s email addresses appear in credential dump following Chegg data breach
Maeve Filbin reports: In April 2018, the widely-used tutoring service and textbook provider Chegg experienced a data breach, after an unauthorized source accessed one of the company’s databases. The breach was discovered in Sept. 2018. On Sept. 26, chief information officer Todd Norris announced in a campus-wide email that the Saint Mary’s College Information Technology…
UK Police Auction Off $294,000 in Stolen Crypto From EtherDelta Hack
Daniel Kuhn reports: UK police auctioned off more than $294,000 of cryptocurrency confiscated from the teenage hacker of EtherDelta and TalkTalk. The Eastern Region Special Operations Unit (ERSOU) worked with Wilsons Auctions to sell the digital assets, including bitcoin, ripple and ethereum, in what is said to be the unit’s first such auction. Read more on CoinDesk.
218M Words with Friends Players Compromised in Data Breach
Dark Reading reports: A cybercriminal operating under the alias Gnosticplayers has broken into the Words with Friends database and gained access to 218 million player records, The Hacker News reports. […] Zynga issued a disclosure on September 12 to say some player data may have been obtained by unauthorized parties; now, a new report sheds light…