Kristian Silva reports: Hackers have targeted a school photography company, with fraudsters making transactions around the world using the credit card details of Queensland parents. Queensland School Photography began emailing students’ parents on Thursday to warn of the hack, but it was not clear how widespread the security breach is or how much was stolen….
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Thousands of Welsh NHS staff’s data stolen in hack
BBC reports: Details of thousands of medical staff in Wales have been stolen from a private contractor’s computer server. Names, dates of birth, radiation doses and National Insurance numbers of staff who work with X-rays were copied as hackers accessed Landauer’s system. The Welsh NHS described the data breach as “deeply disappointing” and it has…
Il: Student expelled for hacking professors’ emails
Shahar Chai reports: An electrical engineering student in the Technion Institute of Technology has been expelled from the university after hacking his professors’ emails and stealing information, including at least one exam. The incident happened a few months ago, but this week the university decided to file a complaint against the student with the police….
Hacktivist who conspired to hack high school football website sentenced to 2 years
Cyrus Farivar reports that Deric Lostutter, aka “KYAnonymous,” whose case has been followed on this site since 2015, was sentenced to two years in federal prison. Lostutter had been instrumental in leaking evidence concerning the Steubenville rape case. Lostutter initially denied his involvement. But in November 2016, he reversed himself and took a plea agreement in exchange for the prosecution dropping…
Fort Myers man arrested, charged with cyber attack on Calif. software company
Melissa Montoya reports: A 29-year-old Fort Myers man was arrested after an FBI investigation found he allegedly shut down a San Diego software company’s website. Gerard “Jerry” M. McTear III was taken into custody Friday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. He allegedly took the website down on June 6, 2016 and told them he would…
Payments Giant Verifone Investigating Breach Affecting Gas Stations
Brian Krebs reports: Credit and debit card payments giant Verifone [NYSE: PAY] is investigating a breach of its internal computer networks that appears to have impacted a number of companies running its point-of-sale solutions, according to sources. Verifone says the extent of the breach was limited to its corporate network and that its payment services network was not…