Pete Evans reports: Hackers have threatened to release personal information for nearly 100,000 customers of two Canadian banks unless the lenders pay a $1-million ransom for its safe return. On Monday, Bank of Montreal and online bank Simplii Financial — owned by CIBC — revealed that they learned over the weekend that the identifying personal information of a combined 90,000 different…
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Court rejects prosecution’s request for longer sentence, sentences Karim Baratov to 5 years plus a $250,000 fine
SAN FRANCISCO – Karim Baratov, aka Kay, aka Karim Taloverov, aka Karim Akehmet Tokbergenov, 23, was sentenced to 60 months in prison and ordered to pay a $250,000 fine, which encompasses all of his remaining assets. The sentence was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Alex G. Tse for the Northern District of California, Assistant Attorney…
BMO and CIBC-owned Simplii Financial reveal hacks of customer data
Pete Evans reports: Two Canadian banks warned customers Monday that they have been the targets of hackers, and the personal information of tens of thousands of customers may have been stolen. CIBC-owned Simplii Financial was the first to warn on Monday morning that hackers had accessed the personal and account information of more than 40,000 of the bank’s…
Hacker Steals $1.35 Million From Cryptocurrency Trading App Taylor
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The creators of the Taylor cryptocurrency trading app claim that an unidentified hacker has stolen around $1.35 million worth of Ether from the company’s wallets. The hack allegedly took place on Tuesday, last week, on May 22. The Taylor team says the hacker somehow “got access to one of our devices and…
ZW: Harare Institute of Technology Hacked Again? More Than 3,500 Student Account Credentials Leaked
Farai Mudzingwa reports: Last year in June, the Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) was hacked and the individual behind the hack demanded US$999 in order to return the files. This hacker also claimed to have secured some – in fact ALL- HIT databases and now there appears to be a new database that contains students…
Arlo advises customers to change passwords after credential-stuffing attempts detected
May 26 notification posted to community.netgear.com. Here’s how it begins: Dear Arlo Customer: We have recently observed suspicious activity potentially impacting Arlo accounts. We take the privacy and security of your account and personal information very seriously and have initiated an investigation into the suspicious activity. From our initial investigation, it appears that attackers may…