Barbara Ross reports: A computer programmer who copied Goldman Sachs’ confidential recipe for making money in high frequency trades is guilty — again — of theft, an appellate court ruled Tuesday. The judges said a lower court judge was wrong to toss Sergey Aleynikov‘s conviction in 2015 of unlawfully using secret scientific material, a low level…
Category: Hack
Russians suspected of hacking Wisconsin Dems
From the I-just-report-’em-I-don’t-necessarily-believe-them dept. Paul Srubas reports: County websites of the Democratic Party in the area have been under attack, at least one apparently by Russian hackers, an officer of the party said. What appears to have been Russian hackers compromised the website of the 8th Congressional District Democratic Party as well as the sites of…
‘Celebgate’ hacker sentenced to nine months in prison
Jon Seidel reports: A federal judge painted a portrait of a world that “inspires secrecy and anonymity and intrusion into the affairs of people’s private lives” as he handed a South Side man a nine-month prison sentence Tuesday for his role in a Hollywood hacking scandal that exposed nude photographs of dozens of A-list celebrities. Edward…
Hackers attempted to blackmail Brazil broker XP over client data breach -Valor
Tatiana Bautzer of Reuters reports: Hackers who stole data from 29,000 clients of XP Investimentos SA allegedly tried to get the Brazilian independent securities firm to pay 22.5 million reais ($7.1 million) to keep the security breach secret, the online service of newspaper Valor Econômico said on Monday. According to Valor, which reviewed documents related…
Hacker Group Claims Responsibility for Lloyds Bank Outages, Ransom Demand
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…
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…