Wilfred Ayaga reports: The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has admitted hackers attempted to breach its systems to steal crucial information ahead of the 2017 election. Chairman Wafula Chebukati told the National Assembly’s Justice and Legal Affairs committee that people intending to steal data attempted to access IEBC servers last year. “Attempts were made…
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The World’s Most Wanted Computer Hacker Controls A Million Computers And Enjoys Wearing Leopard Print
Described as “the most wanted cybercriminal in the world” by the F.B.I, Evgeniy, M. Bogachev has a $3million bounty on his head and a penchant for Bengal cats and leopard print pyjamas. Because what else is a nefarious cyber criminal going to wear when he’s busy doing hacking business? Read more on Esquire.
Wishbone app data breach affects huge number of users
Brittany A. Roston reports: Wishbone, an app popular among teenagers, has suffered a data breach, it has been revealed. The company informed its users of the intrusion in a notification recently, saying it became aware of the data swipe on March 14. The notification says that unknown individuals “may have had access” to the company’s API…
UK: ‘43,000 individuals’ possibly affected after ABTA web server hacked
TTG reports: The organisation said today it had become aware of “unauthorised access to the web server supporting abta.com by an external infiltrator exploiting a vulnerability”. The web server is managed for Abta through a third-party web developer and hosting company. “The infiltrator exploited that vulnerability to access data provided by some customers of Abta…
Justice Department charging Russian spies and criminal hackers in Yahoo intrusion
Update: The DOJ’s press release can be found here and the indictment can be found here. Ellen Nakashima reports: The Justice Department is set to announce Wednesday the indictments of two Russian spies and two criminal hackers in connection with the heist of 500 million Yahoo user accounts in 2014, marking the first U.S. criminal cyber…
GMO Payment Gateway confirms data leakage from two client websites
Maria Nikolova reports: Information security is key in the financial industry but problems concerning maintaining personal data safe keep emerging. GMO Payment Gateway Inc (TYO:3769), the Japanese provider of payment processing services, has sought to apologize over personal data leakage that affected the websites of two of its clients – the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and…