Darren Boyle reports: A Russian man who ran a sophisticated computer hacking network which stole at least £2 million from the bank accounts of UK businesses has been jailed for nine years. Vugar Mollachiev, 37, of Berkeley Gardens, north London, was sentenced to nine years imprisonment at Southwark Crown Court for conspiracy to defraud and…
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Senate GOP campaign arm stole donor data from House Republicans
Politico reports: Staffers for Senate Republicans’ campaign arm seized information on more than 200,000 donors from the House GOP campaign committee over several months this year by breaking into its computer system, three sources with knowledge of the breach told POLITICO. The unauthorized raid on the National Republican Congressional Committee’s data created a behind-the-scenes rift…
Celebrity hospital worker hacked files to find out what her colleagues were paid
Chris Osuh reports: A worker with a grudge over pay hacked files at the ‘celebrity’ hospital where she worked after becoming ‘paranoid’ workmates were earning more than her. Financial administrator Karen Enabofio, 43, looked up colleagues’ salaries and emailed clients’ personal data to herself while working at the private Cygnet Hospital in Bury. Manchester Magistrates…
Shipping firm Clarksons braces for data leak after refusing to pay hacker
Rob Davies reports: Shipping company Clarksons is bracing for a tranche of private data to be released, after refusing to pay a ransom to a hacker who staged a “criminal attack” on its computer systems. In a statement to the stock market, the world’s largest shipbroker said it was working with specialist police and contacting…
Canadian hacker enlisted by Russian FSB to hack Yahoo in 2014 pleads guilty
SAN FRANCISCO – Karim Baratov, a/k/a “Kay,” a/k/a Karim Taloverov, a/k/a Karim Akehmet Tokbergenov, pleaded guilty today to charges returned by a grand jury in the Northern District of California in February 2017. The guilty plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch; Acting Assistant Attorney General Dana J. Boente of the U.S. Justice…
Bulletproof Coffee Failed to Keep Hackers Out
I have no idea if their coffee is any good, but Bulletproof Coffee’s infosecurity may seem like it’s…. wait… what’s the opposite of “bulletproof?” Eduard Kovacs of Security Week recaps a series of payment card breach notifications the Washington-based coffee firm has had to issue in the past year as it discovered that previous estimates…