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No Harm, No Lawsuit: Court Dismisses VTech Litigation

Posted on July 29, 2017 by Dissent

In November, 2015, this site noted a breach involving VTech. At the time, Motherboard reported: The hacked data includes names, email addresses, passwords, and home addresses of 4,833,678 parents who have bought products sold by VTech, which has almost $2 billion in revenue. The dump also includes the first names, genders and birthdays of more than 200,000 kids….

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WestJet says some rewards members’ profile data leaked online

Posted on July 29, 2017 by Dissent

CBC News reports: WestJet says it is working with police in Calgary and the RCMP cybercrime unit after some members’ profile data was disclosed online. The airline said in a news release Friday night that profile data of some WestJet Rewards members was disclosed online “by an unauthorized third party.” The Calgary-based airline says no credit card or banking information was…

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Teenage computer hacker jailed for Malware attacks on Microsoft and Sony has prison sentence reduced

Posted on July 28, 2017 by Dissent

There’s an update in the case of Adam Mudd, the U.K. teenager behind the profitable TitaniumStresser. Matthew Lennon reports: A teenage computer hacker who carried out attacks on Microsoft, Sony and Cambridge University from his bedroom has had his prison sentence reduced. West Herts College student Adam Mudd, now 20, committed the crimes from his bedroom at…

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Ola employee accused of data theft from Aadhaar website

Posted on July 28, 2017 by Dissent

The Business Standard reports: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has registered a case with the Bengaluru Police against Abhinav Srivastava and Qarth Technologies Pvt Ltd for misusing Aadhaar data obtained from its website without any authentication. Chennai-based Qarth Technologies was acquired by India’s largest taxi aggregator Ola in March last year, to help…

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Hackers Selling Access to Critical Infrastructure on Darknet

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Dissent

Joshua Philipp reports: Cyber mercenaries are breaching the systems of governments, financial institutions, critical infrastructure, and businesses, then selling access to them on a marketplace on the darknet, a hidden internet accessible only via specialized software. All of this is happening on a darknet black marketplace known as the CMarket or “Criminal Market,” formerly known as…

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Nanocore Coder Pleads Guilty to Aiding and Abetting Hackers

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Dissent

Kevin Poulsen reports: A self-taught Arkansas programmer pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal charge of aiding and abetting computer intrusion for intentionally selling a remote access tool to malicious hackers. Taylor Huddleston, 26, is the author of a program called Nanocore that’s been linked to intrusions in at least 10 countries, including an attack on…

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