So after grabbing headlines with their announcement that they had hacked HBO, “Mr. Smith” and those behind the attack haven’t responded to follow-up inquiries from this site and the leak site they had created appears to be down. Claiming to have acquired 1.5 T of HBO data and property, the hackers claimed to have acquired…
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Data breach class action against health insurer reinstated
If you search this site for CareFirst, you’ll find a lot of coverage of a breach they had in 2014 that was discovered in 2015, and the ensuing litigation. Now Judy Greenwald reports the latest twist and turn on the litigation front: A federal appeals court has reinstated a putative class action lawsuit filed by…
Irish commuters warned that popular parking service provider customers’ data could have been accessed during service outage
John Hand reports: Irish commuters have been warned that a company which allows people book and pay for parking by text, app and online is investigating whether their data has been breached after a service outage. Mr Parker, which functions at 300 Luas and Irish Rail car parks, informed customers this evening that some sensitive…
Spain allows extradition of alleged Russian hacker to US
AFP reports: Spain’s top-level National Court has okayed extraditing Stanislav Lisov, an alleged Russian hacker accused of creating an online banking malware, to the United States, it said Tuesday. Lisov was detained in January in Barcelona’s El Prat airport when he was about to board a plane. He was subsequently jailed pending a decision on whether…
Hackers Leak Data From Mandiant Security Researcher in Operation #LeakTheAnalyst
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Earlier today, a hacker group named 31337 Hackers has leaked personal details and files belonging to a security researcher working for Mandiant, FireEye’s breach investigation unit. The leak came to light today after hackers posted a message on PasteBin. Two download links for the stolen data were included. The password-protected archives contained…
HBO hacked: Hackers threaten to leak Game of Thrones (UPDATED)
Update: I made e-mail contact with the hackers earlier today. This really doesn’t seem to be the work of TheDarkOverlord at all. One of the hackers, who identified himself as “Mr. Smith” to me claims that they have “gathered most imporatnt files and films & scripts and so on.” (sic), and that they have ”…