Anshel Pfeffer reports: From the moment Channel 12 political analyst Amit Segal broke the story Thursday night that the Shin Bet security service had recently informed Kahol Lavan leader and election front-runner Benny Gantz that his personal smartphone had been hacked, it was clear this could be a moment that will define this election campaign….
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Dutch hacker who DDoSed the BBC and Yahoo News gets no jail time
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A Dutch hacker who launched DDoS attacks against high-profile sites like the BBC and Yahoo News, and also attempted to extort many other companies, received no jail time for his actions. Speaking in a court in the Hague, the Netherlands earlier this month, a 20-year-old man showed remorse in court, admitted to…
Alert: Bancor Hackers move 25433 Ethereum
Layla Harding reports: The whole crypto community was in shock when Bancor was hacked on 10th July last year with more than $23 million worth of Ethereum being stolen. Almost eight months after the incident, the hackers have allegedly made transactions from the wallet where the stolen Ethereum were kept. Read more on Coinnounce.
Student information: Mississippi reaches agreement with Questar over data breach
Bill Moak reports that Questar, a testing and assessment vendor, has settled charges by the Mississippi state attorney general in the wake of a 2018 breach that affected hundreds of students in Mississippi and other states. Moak reports: In its Assurance of Voluntary Cooperation, Questar agreed to a number of actions: Compliance with the Mississippi…
Some job applicants are first learning about the May, 2018 JobScience breach. Why?
In November, 2018, this site noted a breach disclosed by Huntsville Hospital involving JobScience, Inc., a vendor providing online job application services. On November 10, we reported that other entities were also affected, such as Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, who had been notified in September by JobScience, and NorthBay Healthcare Corp., who were notified in October….
How Hackers Pulled Off a $20 Million Mexican Bank Heist
Lily Hay Newman reports: In January 2018 a group of hackers, now thought to be working for the North Korean state-sponsored group Lazarus, attempted to steal $110 million from the Mexican commercial bank Bancomext. That effort failed. But just a few months later, a smaller yet still elaborate series of attacks allowed hackers to siphon…