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Personal info of hundreds of thousands of students targeted in schools hack attack

Posted on June 18, 2017 by Dissent

Kyra Gurney reports: Two months before the U.S. presidential election, international hackers slipped into the computer systems of at least four Florida school district networks in the hopes of stealing the personal data of hundreds of thousands of students. They infected the systems with malware — malicious software — that turned off the logs recording…

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Casinos and mining operations targeted by hackers attempting extortion – Mandiant

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Dissent

While a number of U.S. casinos have reported payment card breaches over the past four years,  a new report from Mandiant indicates that some casinos in Canada appear to have been under attack from hackers who, after acquiring customer and corporate data, attempt to extort the casinos.  Whether all of the Canadian casinos that have…

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Hacker stole satellite data from US Department of Defence

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Dissent

The following press release was issued by the National Crime Agency today: A computer hacker has admitted stealing hundreds of user accounts from a US military communications system. Sean Caffrey, 25, of Sutton Coldfield, accessed and stole the ranks, usernames and email addresses of more than 800 users of a satellite communications system, as well…

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Personal data from Cowboys Casino hack surfaces online

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Dissent

Back in June, 2016, Cowboys Casino announced it was investigating a data breach that impacted employee and corporate data, including customer data. Today, Brodie Thomas reports that personal information acquired by the hackers last year has appeared online. The anonymous hackers, who released about 484 megabytes of documents online via a torrent site, left a…

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CD Projekt Red Reveals Cyberpunk 2077 Data Theft

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Dissent

Aiden Strawhun reports: The Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt Red has another much-anticipated project in the works, but it seems the situation is getting a bit dire. Announced by the development team on Twitter, a person or group has stolen documents and files related to their forthcoming game Cyberpunk 2077 and is demanding a ransom….

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Britney Spears’s Instagram is secretly being used by Russian hackers

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Dissent

Lindsay Maizland reports: In order to hack foreign governments, military officials, and embassies, Russian hackers are now using Britney Spears in their operations by posting cryptic comments on her Instagram photos. Hackers at Turla, a group believed to be linked to Moscow, are using Instagram comments on Britney Spears’s photos to control their hacking operation,…

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