From the can-the-skids-be-far-behind dept. Joseph Cox reports that “Phineas Fisher,” the anonymous individual also known as HackBack and GammaGroupPR, and who is reportedly responsible for the hack on Hacking Team, has released a tutorial video showing others how to attack police sites. I imagine the tutorial will not be up for long, but… In this case,…
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NM: San Juan County notifying patients whose PHI were potentially viewable by hacker
KRQE reports: San Juan County is warning the public of a possible data breach in patients’ health records. Authorities say someone hacked into a county computer on Wednesday. An investigation shows no information was taken, but county officials say patients who participated in the DWI or Axis treatment programs may have had their personal information…
Archive of historic BT ’email’ hack preserved
For hacking history buffs: An archive detailing a historic hack and its fallout has been handed over to the National Museum of Computing. Previously, the cache of documents, press cuttings and letters had been kept by Robert Schifreen, who hacked BT’s Prestel system in 1984. He and Steve Gold took control of Prestel and penetrated…
Gatecoin CEO Reveals $2 Million Loss in Hacking Incident
Traderman reports: On Saturday, Gatecoin CEO Aurélien Menant, released a statement that details the nature of the hack and how the exchange managed to lose 15% of client’s digital currency deposits. Gatecoin has always kept 95% of all customer funds in multi-signature cold wallets, however, the hacker managed to alter Gatecoin systems in such a way…
Commercial Bank of Ceylon website hit by hack attack
Jason Murdock reports: The Sri Lanka-based Commercial Bank of Ceylon has released a statement admitting that a “hacking attack” on its website resulted in a successful intrusion – however, it maintained that no customer data has been compromised. The bank, which released a statement in the wake of major cyberattacks targeting the Bangladesh central bank…
Hacking Team hacker steals €10K in Bitcoin, sends it to Kurdish anticapitalists in Rojava
J. M. Porup reports: The hacker who claimed responsibility for both the Gamma Group and Hacking Team breaches has struck again, this time sending €10,000 (about £8,000) of allegedly stolen Bitcoin to Rojava, an autonomous region in northern Syria that they described as “one of the most inspiring revolutionary projects in the world today.” The hacker, who goes…