Aaron Diamant reports: The FBI is investigating an alleged hack of Kennesaw State University server. Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Aaron Diamant reports the state voter data kept by the Center for Election Systems was compromised. Sources tell Diamant the hack happened Wednesday night and voter data maintained there was compromised. Read more on WSBTV. In related…
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Turkish suspect identified in Vienna airport cyber attack
The Local reports that a failed cyber attack on Vienna airport last year has been traced back to a Turkish man living in Kentucky. Arslan A., also known as Osman T. or General Osman, has a military background in Turkey. […] In a tweet last September, the hacker group “Aslan Neferler Tim” or “Lion Soldiers Team”…
Health insurer Excellus fails in latest attempt to get breach lawsuit dismissed
Patrick O’Neill reports the latest litigation update involving Excellus, whose breach was covered on this site in 2015: Four years after Excellus BlueCross BlueShield was hacked and more than 10 million members had their data exposed, the insurer remains on the defensive in class action lawsuits claiming it ignored cybersecurity at peril of its own members….
Columbia Sportswear Accuses Former IT Employee Of Hacking
Steven Trader reports: Columbia Sportswear Co. on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in Oregon federal court accusing a former employee in its information technology department of illegally hacking into its computer system after he resigned and assessing highly confidential company information for the benefit of the company’s business partner that hired him. You can read more…
Yahoo says 32m user accounts were accessed via cookie forging attack
Asha McLean reports: Yahoo has said that an unauthorised third party accessed the company’s proprietary code to learn how to forge certain cookies, which it said resulted in an intruder accessing approximately 32 million user accounts without a password. “The outside forensic experts have identified approximately 32 million user accounts for which they believe forged…
Website of Korea retail giant Lotte hacked in China
Allen Cone reports: The Lotte Group said Wednesday its website in China was hacked, one day after South Korea’s retail giant signed a deal to sell land for a U.S. missile defense system in South Korea. The website, www.lotte.cn, was inaccessible since Tuesday afternoon because of a virus planted by hackers, a Lotte official said, citing an analysis of…