From This is Lancashire: A 20-YEAR-old man who carried out cyber attacks on police websites as revenge for being convicted of a bomb hoax has been locked up for 16 months. Liam Watts, from Chorley, targeted the Greater Manchester Police website in August last year and then carried out an attack on Cheshire Police sites…
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Delta Airlines sues [24]7.ai over 2017 data breach
Those with good memories may recall that in April, 2018, we learned that hundreds of thousands of customers of Delta Airlines, Sears, Kmart, and BestBuy were impacted by a breach involving [24]7.ai – a California headquartered service that provides online customer chat for their clients’ web sites. The breach occurred between September 26 and October…
University of Florida websites hacked
VandaTheGod has been busy, it seems.
Bulgaria’s Data Breach Suspect Sent Back to Custody
Reuters reports: The owner of a Bulgarian cyber security company has been sent back into custody, a court said on Thursday, as part of an investigation into the nation’s biggest data breach. The Appellate Specialized Court said Tad Group owner Ivan Todorov, accused of instigating last month’s attack on state tax agency NRA that compromised…
Online lender backed by Nas says it was hit by security breach
Kevin Dugan reports: A Silicon Valley tech company backed by rapper Nas was hit by a security breach earlier this year that revealed it had been lax with users’ sensitive personal information, including bank account numbers, The Post has learned. Earnin, which is also backed by tech investor Andreesen Horowitz, discovered in February that a…
With warshipping, hackers ship their exploits directly to their target’s mail room
Zack Whittaker reports: Why break into a company’s network when you can just walk right in — literally? Gone could be the days of having to find a zero-day vulnerability in a target’s website, or having to scramble for breached usernames and passwords to break through a company’s login pages. And certainly there will be…