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Cryptocurrency Startup Claims Hackers Stole $30.95 Million

Posted on November 21, 2017 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: In an official statement posted on its website yesterday, Tether, a startup that offers 1-to-1 dollar-backed digital tokens [USDT], said a hacker stole funds worth $30,950,010. Tether claims the hack took place on Sunday, November 19, and the hacker removed funds from the main Tether Treasury wallet and moved it to the…

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AU: Police investigate hack of gun club database

Posted on November 18, 2017 by Dissent

Nino Bucci reports: Police are investigating the hacking of a gun club database that may have exposed where more than 1500 semi-automatic handguns are stored. The private details of 540 members from the Port Melbourne club, including the types of weapons they owned, is believed to have been compromised this month, potentially exposing them to…

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Court dates set in Justin Shafer case

Posted on November 18, 2017 by Dissent

On Friday, December 1, lawyers for an infosec researcher who has been in jail since April will  argue that U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey should release Justin Shafer from jail while he awaits trial. For those who are not familiar with the case, Shafer, a dental integrator technician and independent infosecurity researcher, faces federal…

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Cn: Police detain 20 over personal information infringement

Posted on November 17, 2017 by Dissent

Oops. I missed this last week when Xinhua reported: Police in east China’s Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province have seized 20 people suspected of stealing more than 300,000 pieces of personal information. The gang were found to have hacked into servers of over 50 airline company websites since 2016. The leaks included user IDs, passwords and…

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Italy investigates Anonymous hack of state employees’ emails

Posted on November 17, 2017 by Dissent

Reuters reports: Italian police are investigating a hack into the email accounts of government employees by activist group Anonymous, which then published documents it had extracted. On its Italian blog Anonymous uploaded a screenshot of an email purportedly sent from a government email address to an employee of the prime minister’s office containing the names…

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Ca: VerticalScope confirms user information stolen from six hacked websites

Posted on November 17, 2017 by Dissent

The Canadian Press reports: Toronto-based VerticalScope Inc. says six of the community websites it administers were hacked last month in the latest of a recent series of data breaches affecting Canadian online user information. […] It says the data did not include credit card or banking information but did include usernames, email addresses, encrypted passwords,…

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