There continues to be a lot of media coverage of the COMELEC breach in the Philippines. Here’s an interesting response. Carlos Nazareno reports: The Center for International Law Philippines (Centerlaw), a human rights legal group, delivered on Monday, April 25, a demand letter to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) over its possible failure to reasonably protect the…
Category: Hack
Lawsuit claims workers comp insurers hacked into injured workers’ files
Donna Mahoney reports: A California worker claims in a federal lawsuit that three of the largest workers compensation insurance companies in California illegally hacked over 32,000 confidential workers comp files. A lawsuit, which seeks class action status, was filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles against Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Homestate, San…
Hundreds of Spotify credentials appear online – users report accounts hacked, emails changed
Sarah Perez reports: A list containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials – including emails, usernames, passwords, account type and other details – has popped up on the website Pastebin, in what appears to be a possible security breach. After reaching out to a random sampling of the victims via email, we’ve confirmed that these users’ Spotify…
Hell froze over. Hacked firm cares more about its users’ security than its corporate image
Graham Cluley tells TruckersMP to take a bow for self-reporting a breach of user data to Troy Hunt’s HaveIBeenPwned.com site. Let me join in the wild applause. Bravo, TruckersMP!!!!
SWIFT Software Bug Exploited by Bangladesh Bank Hackers
Phil Muncaster reports: A bug in SWIFT banking software may have been exploited to allow hackers to make off with $81 million from Bangladesh’s central bank in February, according to reports. Investigators at British defense contractor BAE Systems told Reuters that the malware in question, evtdiag.exe, had been designed to change code in SWIFT’s Access…
Church website hacked by extremist Islamic group
Rebecca Russell reports that the website of the Lamont Christian Reformed Church in Michigan was defaced with a message purportedly from the United Cyber Caliphate. A video from the United Cyber Caliphate automatically played reading, “We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses and enslave your women by the permission of Allah, the Exalted”. The church’s website…