Lorenzo Franceschai-Bicchierai reports: A hacker is trying to sell the account information, including emails and passwords, of 117 million LinkedIn users. The hacker, who goes by the name “Peace,” told Motherboard that the data was stolen during the LinkedIn breach of 2012. At the time, only around 6.5 million encrypted passwords were posted online, and LinkedIn never…
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NZ: Teen hacks up to $260,000
Police estimate a Gisborne teenager’s internet banking fraud could now have a tally as high as $260,000. Jake Kyle Hall, 19, yesterday pleaded guilty in Gisborne District Court to about 95 more fraud charges. He had already pleaded guilty last December to about 80 charges, with a total of his unlawful takings estimated at that time…
AZ: Gilbert Public Schools email hacked by junior high school student
AP reports: A junior high school student reportedly hacked into the email system of Gilbert Public Schools and sent inappropriate messages to other students. District officials said the Highland Junior High student got access to the teacher’s login information and emailed messages to other students over the weekend. Read more on The Arizona Republic. And the…
Ukrainian hacker admits hacks of MarketWired, PRN, and Business Wire press releases for securities fraud scheme
A Ukrainian hacker today admitted his role in an international scheme to hack into three business newswires, steal yet-to-be published press releases containing non-public financial information, and use the information to make trades that allegedly generated approximately $30 million in illegal profits, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Vadym Iermolovych, 28, of Kiev, Ukraine, pleaded…
Nulled.io crime forum breach could cause a world of pain for members
Dan Goodin reports: A website that openly facilitated the brokering of compromised passwords, stolen bitcoins, and other sensitive data has been hacked, exposing login data, IP addresses, e-mail addresses, purchase histories, and private messages for some 500,000 members. Nulled.io, a hacker forum that used the tagline “expect the unexpected,” was compromised earlier this month in…
Data breach affecting more than 50,000 reported by Medical Colleagues of Texas
The Houston Chronicle reports: Hackers breached the computer network of a doctors’ group in Katy, potentially accessing upward of 50,000 medical records and personnel files, a lawyer for the practice said Wednesday. “It’s a large number of records,” said Dallas attorney Lindsay Nickle, who represents the group, Medical Colleagues of Texas. Computer forensics experts were…