Two Bitcoin related websites were hacked, namely Btc-E.com (a Bitcoin exchange acting similar to a foreign currency exchange) and Bitcointalk.org (the largest Bitcoin discussion forum in the world). BTC-E.com Btc-E.com had 568,355 users hacked in October of 2014. Btc-E.com data contains usernames, emails, passwords, ip addresses, register dates, languages and some internal data such as how…
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Florida computer programmer arrested for hacking Linux Kernel Organization
SAN FRANCISCO – A South Florida-based computer programmer made an appearance in the Southern District of Florida today after being arrested Sunday on charges of hacking into computers operated by the Linux Kernel Organization and the Linux Foundation, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John…
Romanian Hacker “Guccifer” Sentenced to 52 Months in Prison for Computer Hacking Crimes
Marcel Lehel Lazar, 44, of Arad, Romania, a hacker who used the online moniker “Guccifer,” was sentenced today to 52 months in prison for unauthorized access to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft. Lazar pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge James C. Cacheris of the Eastern District of Virginia on May 25, 2016. According…
After a month of silence, University of New Mexico assists identity theft victims
Denicia Aragon reports: Over 1,000 former students and employees of UNM recently had their identity stolen from a University database, and after a month of silence, UNM has established a call center to assist victims of the incident. According to a University release, a decades-old UNM database containing names, birth dates, social security numbers, address,…
Last.fm data from 2012 added to LeakedSource
Here’s yet another hack from 2012 where the data are now first circulating online. See previous coverage of the Last.fm hack here. Today LeakedSource announced that they had added the Last.fm data to their repository: Music service Last.fm was hacked on March 22nd, 2012 for a total of 43,570,999 users. This data set was provided…
New York State Psychiatric Institute notifies 21,880 research participants of hack
The New York State Psychiatric Institute, a facility owned and operated by the New York State Office of Mental Health, has reported the following incident to HHS as impacting 21,880 research participants: On June 17, 2016, New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) learned that, between April 28 and May 4, certain parts of our system were accessed…