Catalin Cimpanu reports: A group of at least two hackers has tried to extort a ransom payment from the Lloyds Banking Group according to a copy of an email the hackers sent to a high-ranking executive. The extortion attempt took place on January 11, the first day some Lloyds Bank customers experienced short-lived problems with accessing their…
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SEC probing Yahoo over previously disclosed cyber breach: filing
Suzanne Barlyn reports: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating a previously disclosed data breach at Yahoo Inc, the company said in a filing. Yahoo said in a November 2016 quarterly filing that it was “cooperating with federal, state and foreign” agencies, including the SEC, that were seeking information and documents about a “security…
Catholic Charities of Baltimore Notifies Clients of Potential Security Incident
Catholic Charities of Baltimore issued a press release today after an employee’s email account was hacked and personal and protected health information of the charity’s clients may have been accessed or acquired. The press release does not indicate how many people they are notifying. Nor does it indicate how the hack occurred – did the…
Clash of Clans Forums Accounts Have Been Hacked
Costea Lestoc reports: It seems that Supercell, the creator of Clash of Clans, has suffered a major security breach. It has been revealed that the company has revealed that during an attack on its member forums, over a million user accounts were compromised. In other words, some hackers have now over a million accounts usernames,…
St. Louis’ public library computers hacked for ransom
WTAE reports: Hackers have infected every public computer in the St. Louis Public Library system, stopping all book borrowing and cutting off internet access to those who rely on it for computers. […] According to the library, hackers demanded $35,000 in the electronic currency Bitcoin — but the library refuses to pay. Instead, it’ll wipe…
University of Iowa suspects grade tampering reason for HawkID security breach
Vanessa Miller reports: The University of Iowa is investigating a “handful” of possible cases of cheating — and warning the entire campus community to change their HawkID passwords — after a faculty member discovered a student’s grade had been changed without authorization. A university official confirmed the investigation Thursday after UI Chief Information Security Officer…