David Baker reports: The City of Goodyear said on Tuesday its bill pay system may have been compromised. The City said it is investigating after a customer reported a potential problem on Monday morning. Staff disabled the system and told the system’s vendor, Goodyear officials said. Read more on AZFamily.
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Romanian Computer Hacker Sentenced to One Year in Federal Prison for Staging Denial of Service Attacks on ‘World of Warcraft’ Servers
May 7 – A Romanian computer hacker who orchestrated a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the European servers of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft was sentenced today to one year in federal prison. Calin Mateias, 38, of Romania, was sentenced by United States District Judge Otis…
Delhi High Court Declines To Interfere With Arrest Of Suspected ‘Pro-Pak’ Kashmiri Hacker
Mid-day reports: The Delhi High Court has refused to interfere with the arrest of a suspected “pro-Pakistan” Kashmiri hacker, who is alleged to have hacked over 500 Indian websites and was in touch with several Pak-based anti-Indian hackers. A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and I S Mehta said it was of the prima facie…
Ph: Privacy commission orders Jollibee to suspend online delivery services over data breach
Ted Cordero reports: The National Privacy Commission (NPC) on Tuesday ordered fast-food giant Jollibee Foods Corp. to suspend its online delivery platform indefinitely due to a data breach reported by the company in December last year. The NPC ordered Jollibee to suspend the operations jollibeedelivery.com and all other data processing open to the public through…
Hacker Shuts Down Copenhagen’s Public City Bikes System
Catalin Cimpanu reports: An unidentified hacker has breached Bycyklen —Copenhagen’s city bikes network— and deleted the organization’s entire database, disabling the public’s access to bicycles over the weekend. The hack took place on the night between Friday, May 4, and Saturday, May 5, the organization said on its website. Bycyklen described the hack as “rather…
UK: Data stolen in Sheffield Credit Union cyber attack
BBC reports: The personal data of about 15,000 members of a credit union has been stolen in a cyber attack. Sheffield Credit Union (SCU) said information including names, addresses, national insurance numbers and bank details had been accessed. The attack happened in February but only came to light recently after hackers threatened to publish the…