The personal data of 5,400 customers of AXA Insurance in Singapore has been stolen due to a cyber attack. The life insurance firm sent out an e-mail to affected customers on Thursday (Sept 7), notifying them of the data breach. In the e-mail, AXA’s data protection officer Eric Lelyon said: “We wish to inform you…
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Sg: Meridian Secondary School’s art competition site hacked
Kelly Ng reports: Hackers broke into a Meridian Secondary School website last month, prompting the school to make a police report. The Young Illustrator Award site, which hosted an online art competition open to primary and secondary school students, was hacked on August 30 and has been taken down, the school said in a media statement on…
Moscow Court Sentences ‘Shaltai-Boltai’ Hackers To Prison
RadioFreeEurope RadioLiberty reports: A Moscow court has sentenced two Russian hackers to three years in prison each for breaking into the e-mail accounts of top Russian officials and leaking them. Konstantin Teplyakov and Aleksandr Filinov were members of the Shaltai-Boltai (Humpty Dumpty in Russian) collective believed to be behind the hacking of high-profile accounts, including…
Hackers attacking US and European energy firms could sabotage power grids
Alex Hern reports: A hacking campaign is targeting the energy sector in Europe and the US to potentially sabotage national power grids, a cybersecurity firm has warned. The group, dubbed “Dragonfly” by researchers at Symantec, has been in operation since at least 2011 but went dark in 2014 after it was first exposed, secretly placing…
Taringa hacked: 28 million users’ credentials compromised – LeakBase
Mohit Kumar reports: If you have an account on Taringa, also known as “The Latin American Reddit,” your account details may have compromised in a massive data breach that leaked login details of almost all of its over 28 million users. Taringa is a popluar social network geared toward Latin American users, who create and…
MongoDB ransacking starts again: Hackers ransom 26,000 unsecured instances
Liam Tung reports: Three groups of hackers have wiped around 26,000 MongoDB databases over the weekend and demanded victims to pay about $650 to have them restored. The new wave of MongoDB ransom attacks marks a resurgence of the massive assault on unsecured instances of the open-source NoSQL database earlier this year. The attacks were…