From the Information Commissioner’s Office, this announcement about what is a record fine for them: Telecoms company TalkTalk has been issued with a record £400,000 fine by the ICO for security failings that allowed a cyber attacker to access customer data “with ease”. The ICO’s in-depth investigation found that an attack on the company last October could have been…
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Surgeon General warns staff that personal information may have been stolen
Eric Yoder reports: The Surgeon General on Monday issued a warning to his staff that is all too familiar to federal employees: Your personal information may have been stolen. In an email, Surgeon General Vice Adm. Vivek H. Murthy told “commissioned corps” employees of the Public Health Service that information, including their names, dates of…
RedHack leaks reveal the rise of Turkey’s pro-government Twitter trolls
Efe Kerem Sozeri reports: Leaked emails from the Turkish government provide new details of how Turkey’s pro-government Twitter troll army targets the opposition and silences media criticism in the media. Last Friday, RedHack, a Marxist hacker group, claimed to have hacked personal email accounts of Turkey’s Energy Minister and President Erdoğan’s son-in-law, Berat Albayrak. They threatened to leak data if Turkey…
California CPA firm hacked to file fraudulent returns
On August 15, 2016, Wheeler & Egger, CPAs, LLP discovered a data security incident involving their firm and some of their clients whose 2015 tax returns were on Extension. After thorough investigation, they have discovered that the perpetrator(s) hacked into their system, and between August 3rd and 9th 2016, fraudulently filed 45 client tax returns. Letters were mailed to…
FeverClan responds to notification of claimed breach
A claimed breach involving gaming community FeverClan, announced on Twitter last night, has FeverClan in response mode. @Allergically announced the hack: Feverclan.com with over 50,000 Users was hacked on 9/28/16 Hashed Passwords, Emails, Ip’s, and more.@pr0jekkt @FeverClan pic.twitter.com/MhzVuxMf7s — ️️️️ (@Allergically) September 29, 2016 It appears that @Pr0jekkt is taking credit for it: @Allergically @FeverClan…
InfoArmor: Yahoo Data Breach Investigation
Well, it seems InfoArmor is calling b.s. on claims that Yahoo! was hacked by state actors. The overview from their report: Yahoo was compromised in 2014 by a group of professional blackhats who were hired to compromise customer databases from a variety of different targeted organizations. Some of their initial targets, which occurred in 2012…