Did you hear the one about the major credit reporting agency that not only had two hacks this year that have impacted the majority of the population, but then they directed consumers to a fake phishing site? Yeah, that one. So at this point, I think it’s pretty clear that the Equifax breach will go…
Category: Hack
Did a media blackout on reporting on TheDarkOverlord allow them to mushroom in the dark?
By the end of 2016, a number of journalists and/or their employers had made an ethical decision not to report on hacks and in-progress extortion attempts by TheDarkOverlord. But did the lack of coverage enable the criminals to expand their operations without any public attention or public pressure on law enforcement to pursue them aggressively? …
Court dismisses lawsuits over OPM data breach
The Hill reports: A District of Columbia court has dismissed two lawsuits over the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach disclosed in 2015. The American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal workers union, filed the class action lawsuit against the OPM in June 2015, alleging that the breaches stemmed from gross negligence on the…
Equifax admits it had another breach 5 months before the one it disclosed
Michael Riley , Anita Sharpe , and Jordan Robertson report: Equifax Inc. learned about a major breach of its computer systems in March — almost five months before the date it has publicly disclosed, according to three people familiar with the situation. In a statement, the company said the March breach was not related to…
TheDarkOverlord v2.0: now with threats of physical violence?
You may have never heard of Flathead Valley in Montana. I’ll admit that I had never heard of it until tonight when I received a tip to go look at a post on their sheriff’s Facebook page. And that’s when I learned that Flathead County schools had not only been hacked and threatened if they didn’t…
Dutch Bitcoin Broker Litebit Suffers Second Data Breach in Six Weeks
JP Buntinx reports: Most European cryptocurrency enthusiasts have come across the Litebit.eu platform at some point. The company has quickly made a name for itself as one of the more prominent cryptocurrency brokers in the European market. It provides users with a convenient way to buy most major currencies with convenient payment methods, including instant…