Michael Boren reports: A former Philadelphia doctor hacked into the cell phone, email, and social media accounts of several former classmates at Burlington County’s Delran High School, from which he graduated in 2005, and then made copies of their photos, authorities said. Peter Grossman, 29, who lives in Center City, was charged with identity theft…
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Daytona State College discovers second breach
Whoa. While investigating an employee W-2 breach that DataBreaches.net first alerted them to in February, Daytona State College discovered that they had had another breach – one involving student financial aid applications. The breach affected the personal and financial information of an unspecified number of students and their parents. Read more on WFTV.
Portland man accused of swiping data from LA gaming company to create competitor zombie-survival game
Maxine Bernstein reports: A Portland man accused of obtaining unauthorized access to the software supporting a zombie-themed survival video game and then creating a competitor online game faces federal indictment. Brent Junker, who goes by the aliases “the domo” and “therussianknight” is charged with three counts of conspiracy to obtain unauthorized access to a protected computer….
Important: Notification of data breach on FIRST Forums
As seen on their site today: Dear FIRST® Participant, We wish to inform you of an event that may affect the security of your username and password on our FIRST forums. What happened? On March 6, 2017, FIRST received a report of suspicious activity for two externally hosted websites – the FIRST Forum (forums.usfirst.org) and FIRST…
Hackers: We Will Remotely Wipe iPhones Unless Apple Pays Ransom
Joseph Cox reports: A hacker or group of hackers is apparently trying to extort Apple over alleged access to a large cache of iCloud and other Apple email accounts. The hackers, who identified themselves as ‘Turkish Crime Family’, demanded $75,000 in Bitcoin or Ethereum, another increasingly popular crypto-currency, or $100,000 worth of iTunes gift cards…
Hackers Try to Steal Baidu’s Driverless Car Secrets
Tom Mackenzie reports: Baidu Inc. has revealed that a gang of “hackers-for-hire” tried to steal its driverless car technology, prompting it to bulk up its cybersecurity team. The Beijing-based company’s head of cybersecurity, Ma Jie, said it was unclear who was behind the gang. “It’s very difficult to know who employs them to do that,…