Fan Yiying reports: Hackers have got their hands on nearly 6,000 private videos of newborn babies and uploaded them to a video-sharing website, according to a Tuesday report by online news outlet Phoenix New Media. The videos were recorded by the Anhui Women and Children Health Hospital in Hefei, the eastern provincial capital, and were part of…
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Not our data, not our server – Amazon Kindle denies hacker’s claims
Jason Murdock reports: Online giant Amazon has hit back at claims that a hacker was able to steal over 80,000 user records belonging to Kindle users from one of its servers. On 8 July, a hacker using the pseudonym 0x2Taylor posted a link on Twitter to a data dump that appeared to consist of thousands…
Datadog chews on data breach
Charlie Osborne reports: Datadog has admitted to becoming a victim of a data breach and has recommended that users immediately revoke and change their credentials. Datadog provides metrics for cloud providers across services, apps and systems, offering software-as-a-service (SaaS) which can integrate with platforms including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Windows Azure, Google’s cloud platform…
Ukrainian Hacker Hacks Polish Telecom Giant Netia; Leaks Massive Data
Waqas writes: A Ukrainian hacker going by the handle of Pravy Sektor has breached the servers of Poland’s telecom company Netia SA and stole a massive trove of data a couple of days ago and posted it for public access on an underground forum. Netia SA has acknowledged that netia.pl faced a cyber attack from the hackers but…
Another healthcare database hacked and put up for sale (UPDATED)
The blackhat using the Twitter handle @tdohack3r (TheDarkOverlord) has put yet another database with patient information up for sale. As with previous hacks, the database contains identity information that could be used for identity theft or fraud. It also contains medical insurance account information and codes related to the type of service. According to the listing…
‘KYAnonymous,’ who drew attention to Ohio rape case, indicted by federal grand jury
Greg Kocher reports: Deric Lostutter, the Clark County online activist known as “KYAnonymous” who helped draw national attention to an Ohio rape case, was indicted on four felony counts Thursday by a federal grand jury in Lexington. The indictment says Lostutter violated the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act when he “knowingly and intentionally joined…