Kelly Fiveash reports: The UK’s home secretary, Amber Rudd, has signed an extradition order agreeing that hacking suspect Lauri Love should face trial in the US. Love’s family plan to appeal against the decision. The 31-year-old—who has Asperger’s syndrome—faces up to 99 years in prison and fears for his own life, his lawyers have said….
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In: Data of 34 million Keralites leaked in massive data breach; govt had ignored vulnerability reports
And this, kids, is what happens when an entity keeps ignoring vulnerability reports from researchers or infosec folks. In this case, an IT consultant, “N.T.R.,” hacked civilsupplieskerala.gov: “I wrote to the NIC several times pointing to the vulnerabilities and even called the civil supplies office warning them about a possible breach, but they ignored me….
UK: Teenager admits to seven hacking offences in Talk Talk data breach
Sam Russell reports: A 17-year-old boy has admitted seven hacking offences linked to the TalkTalk data breach in October 2015. The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested in Norwich on November 3 last year and charged with breaching the Computer Misuse Act 1990 following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police’s Cyber…
Secrets for hundreds of millions exposed in largest hack of 2016: Friend Finder Network
From LeakedSource.com: Friend Finder Network Inc is a company that operates a wide range of 18+ services and was hacked in October of 2016 for over 400 million accounts representing 20 years of customer data which makes it by far the largest breach we have ever seen — MySpace gets 2nd place at 360 million….
ElSurveillance hacks and dumps two more dating sites; warns users about “Russian black hats”
The hacktivist known as ElSurveillance, whose operation is #EscortsOffline, is back with two more data dumps from dating sites. The first target was 24luv.com, where ElSurveillance claims he hacked and dumped 92,937 users’ email addresses and plain-text passwords. In a defacement on the site, ElSurveillance writes, in part: I compromised this website about four months ago and…
MI: Lansing Board of Water & Light paid $25,000 ransom after cyberattack in April
There’s an update to a ransomware attack on Lansing Board of Water & Light that had been reported back in May. The Lansing State Journal reported this week: The Lansing Board of Water & Light paid a $25,000 ransom to unlock its internal communications systems after they were disabled by a cyberattack last spring, officials…