Nick Hopkins reports: One of the world’s “big four” accountancy firms has been targeted by a sophisticated hack that compromised the confidential emails and plans of some of its blue-chip clients, the Guardian can reveal. Deloitte, which is registered in London and has its global headquarters in New York, was the victim of a cybersecurity…
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Public shaming likely but GOP wary of new laws after Equifax breach
AP reports what I’ve basically been telling everyone already. Prospects are good for a public shaming in the Equifax data breach, but it’s unlikely Congress will institute sweeping new regulations after hackers accessed the personal information of an estimated 143 million Americans. Since early this year, President Donald Trump and the Republican-led Congress have strived…
MA: SMART Physical Therapy hacked by TheDarkOverlord
SMART (“Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Therapy”) Physical Therapy has two locations in Massachusetts: one in Malden and one in Reading. But it doesn’t matter which one patients may have been treated at, as data from all of their patients was recently hacked by TheDarkOverlord. And not surprisingly, the attackers tried to extort the clinic. Having…
Lawyer: Hacker in Spanish custody sought by US, Russia
AP reports: Russian authorities are fighting the extradition of an alleged Russian hacker from Spain to the United States, the suspect’s lawyer said Friday, in the latest move by Moscow to block U.S. prosecution of suspected Russian cybercriminals. Pyotr Levashov, a 37-year-old known as one of the world’s most notorious hackers, was arrested earlier this…
S.E.C. Says It Was a Victim of Computer Hacking Last Year
Alexandra Stevenson and Carlos Tejada report that the S.E.C. has disclosed it was hacked last year: The disclosure, coming on the heels of a data breach at Equifax, the major consumer credit reporting firm, is likely to intensify concerns over potential computer vulnerabilities lurking among pillars of the American financial system. The Securities and Exchange…
Equifax tweets fake phishing site to concerned customers
Did you hear the one about the major credit reporting agency that not only had two hacks this year that have impacted the majority of the population, but then they directed consumers to a fake phishing site? Yeah, that one. So at this point, I think it’s pretty clear that the Equifax breach will go…