KVIA reports: A total of 55 students from Gadsden High School are accused of accessing an online computer program and changing their grades on their online courses. The school said students in various upper grade levels gained access to the access code that allowed them to change the grade of their work on curriculum software…
Category: Hack
Ex-CIA employee ID’d but not charged in Vault 7 leak of hacking tools
It’s the leak/spy story of the year, I think. But no one has been charged as yet, even though they have a suspect. Dan Goodin reports: Federal authorities have identified a suspect behind last year’s Vault 7 leak of Central Intelligence Agency hacking tools. The trove published to WikiLeaks included exploits and documents for infecting…
Member of TheDarkOverlord arrested — reports
There are reports in the news this morning that a member of TheDarkOverlord has been arrested by Serbian police. These are translations via Google, and I do not see any report yet naming the arrestee or a photo, but… Serbian police arrested SS (1980) from Belgrade suspected of being one of the hackers from the…
Mason Law Office notifies clients of hack involving mycase.com
So for a law firm, I would think this would be a really bad breach to have to disclose. Mason Law Office in Sacramento sent a copy of their notification to the California Attorney General’s Office. Their notification reads, in part: What happened? On or about May 5, 2018, we discovered evidence of unauthorized access…
Irish Data Protection Commissioner investigating cyber attack that claimed player details from World Rugby
Gavin Mairs reports: World Rugby has been forced to suspend one of its websites after the governing body was the target of a cyber attack that saw hackers obtain personal data from thousands of subscribers to one of their databases, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal. It is understood that the hackers were able to access…
Ohio man charged in August, 2017 DDoS attacks on akronohio.gov and akroncops.org
Eric Heisig reports: An Akron man aligned with the online hacking collective Anonymous was arrested Thursday for launching cyberattacks on websites for the city of Akron and its police department, according to the FBI. James Robinson, 32, admitted he was responsible for the attacks on the Akron websites akronohio.gov and akroncops.org between Aug. 1 and Aug. 5,…