Bill Dolan reports: The Lake Ridge School Corp. has had another financial setback only weeks after voters declined to provide more tax revenue to the struggling institution. The school district recently lost a legal battle with a New York bank to recover more than $120,000 stolen two years ago by an offshore computer hacker. School…
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Hackers offer ‘Black Friday’ discounts for stolen credit card details
Matthew Field reports: Hackers are offering Black Friday discounts for stolen credit card details being bought and sold on the dark web as they seek to cash in on an online shopping bonanza. Security experts including the FBI, the UK’s cyber defence agency and online security firms have warned of a wave of hacking and fraud as criminals…
German flirting network gets fined 20,000€ for leaking user information
Nicole Lorenz reports Knuddels.de is a German flirting / chatting / social media channel. The network was hacked back in September and around 808,000 email addresses as well as 1,872,000 pseudonyms and passwords were leaked as a result. Now a couple of months later a German court decided that the company would have to pay…
Hacker lifts $1 million in cryptocurrency using San Francisco man’s phone number, prosecutors say
Kate Rooney reports: Losing cellphone service is inconvenient. But in some cases, it also might mean you’re getting hacked. San Francisco resident Robert Ross, a father of two, noticed his phone suddenly lose its signal on Oct. 26. Confused, he went to a nearby Apple store and later contacted his service provider, AT&T. But he…
Hackers Hit Adult Furry Website, Exposing Hundreds of Thousands of Users
Melanie Ehrenkranz reports: The website for an adult furry game was hacked, with 411,000 unique email addresses and other personal information leaked, according to Have I Been Pwned’s Troy Hunt. The website hosted High Tail Hall, an interactive puzzle game “where you can have erotic encounters with the surrounding characters.” The data breach reportedly happened…
UK: Hackers, 21 and 23, admit breaking into TalkTalk’s website in a huge data breach that cost the telecoms firm £77m in lost business
Darren Boyle reports: Two computer geeks hacked the website of telecoms giant TalkTalk in a massive data breach costing the company £77m in lost business, a court heard. Connor Allsopp, 21, and Matthew Hanley, 23, were behind the plot to steal thousands of customers’ personal and banking details in October 2015. TalkTalk was fined a…