Jay Clayton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Christopher G. Raia, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced that KINGSLEY UCHELUE UTULU was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe to 63 months in prison for…
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Texas DOT investigates breach of crash report records, sends notification letters
Randall Case reports: A compromise of an account has led to improper downloads of a large number of crash records, the Texas Department of Transportation announced Friday. On May 12, TxDOT identified unusual activity in its Crash Records Information System (CRIS) and further investigation revealed the activity originated from an account that was compromised and…
PowerSchool hacker pleads guilty, released on personal recognizance bond
He’s just a frail-looking teenager, but he sent threatening emails to get his victims to pay his extortion demands. Today, 19 year-old Assumption College student Matthew Lane waived indictment and pleaded guilty in a Worcester courtroom to hacking an unnamed telecom company and an unnamed edtech vendor, widely known to be PowerSchool. As per the…
New evidence links long-running hacking group to Indian government
Daryna Antoniuk reports: Researchers say they have uncovered new evidence linking a long-running threat actor known as Bitter to the Indian government…. In a two-part report released this week, researchers from U.S.-based Proofpoint and Switzerland-based Threatray said their new findings are based on a series of campaigns conducted between October 2024 and April 2025. During this period, Bitter —…
Zaporizhzhia Cyber Police Exposes Hacker Who Caused Millions in Losses to Victims by Mining Cryptocurrency
The following is a machine translation from a report in Ukrainian by the country’s national police cyber department: A 35-year-old man hacked more than 5,000 customer accounts of a world-famous hosting company to generate cryptocurrency on the organization’s servers. The defendant faces up to 15 years in prison. Police officers determined that a 35-year-old native…
Two Men Sentenced to Prison for Aggravated Identity Theft and Computer Hacking Crimes
There’s an update to a previously reported case. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of New York, yesterday: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, United States District Judge Frederic Block sentenced Sagar Steven Singh, also known as “Weep,” to 27 months’ imprisonment for conspiracy to commit computer intrusion and aggravated identify theft. On…