This just gets stranger and stranger in terms of how Spiral Toys is responding to the CloudPets leak and hack reported by Troy Hunt. The following is a Spiral Toy notification, sent to the California Attorney General’s Office today, below. All typos are as in the original. Why they sent this thing to the California Attorney General’s…
Category: Hack
SG: Personal data of national servicemen and Mindef staff stolen in breach
AsiaOne reports: The Ministry of Defence (Mindef) said on Tuesday (Feb 28) that the personal information of some National Servicemen (NSFs) and ministry employees were stolen after a “targeted and carefully planned” attack on one of its computer systems. […] Mindef said that it detected a breach in its I-net system, which provides Internet access…
Data from connected CloudPets teddy bears leaked due to misconfigured database; 820,000 kids’ files exposed
Troy Hunt reports that a misconfigured MongoDB installation resulted in audio files of children’s and parents’ conversations recorded by CloudPets being exposed in a Shodan search. And as we’ve seen many other times, the exposed files were deleted by an attacker, and a purported “ransom” note left in place of the database – a ransom note that was…
Hacker Group Defaces Hundreds of Websites After Hacking UK Hosting Firm
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A hacking crew that goes by the name of National Hackers Agency (NHA) has defaced 605 websites in one go after they managed to get access to a server from UK hosting firm DomainMonster. The attacks, brought to Bleeping Computer’s attention by a member of another hacking crew, took place on Tuesday,…
Database Ransom Attacks Have Now Hit MySQL Servers
Catalin Cimpanu reports: After the ransacking of MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Hadoop, CouchDB, and Cassandra servers, attackers are now hijacking hundreds of MySQL databases, deleting their content, and leaving a ransom note behind asking for a 0.2 Bitcoin ($235) payment. According to breach detection firm GuardiCore, the attacks are happening via brute-force attacks on Internet-exposed MySQL servers, and there’s plenty of those…
Florida man pleads guilty in attempted hacking of Clinton Foundation
Nate Raymond and Nathan Layne report: A Florida man pleaded guilty in a case stemming from an attempted hacking of the Clinton Foundation on Thursday, months after he was sentenced to 42 years in prison in the wake of child pornography discovered on his computers during the probe. Timothy Sedlak, 43, pleaded guilty in federal…