It looks like @ElSurveillance has been busy again since this site last heard from in December. Catalin Cimpanu has the story on Softpedia, and Jason Murdock picks it up on IBT.
Category: Hack
JP: Teen faces charges over breach of online school grades management system
Kyodo News reports: A second arrest warrant was served on a 17-year-old boy Monday over the theft of some 210,000 digital files containing the grades of students in Saga Prefecture schools, police said. The boy, a resident of the city of Saga, is suspected of accessing an online system used by the prefecture’s public junior…
Dark web drug dealer and hacker to pay out £17,000 and carry out 200 hours of unpaid work
Victoria Wheldon reports: A Scots computer hacker who used the ‘dark web’ to sell drugs has been ordered to pay £17,000 in compensation and carry out 200 hours of unpaid work. David Trail set up and administered the Topix2 website, an online black market site which he used to buy and sell drugs including Diazepam…
TalkTalk being sued by hacked customer
TalkTalk hack’s last year received a lot of coverage on this blog already, but here’s an update. Stephen Hayward reports that a customer who lost £257 to a scammer is suing for compensation. Michael Robinson, 32, has filed suit against the firm, claiming that in addition to becoming a victim of a scam as a result of the breach, crooks also got hold…
Anyone know what healthcare facilities these are? 655,000 patient records up for sale on dark net (UPDATED)
Seen up for sale on a forum (I’m redacting the ads and samples): Healthcare Database (48,000 Patients) from Farmington, Missouri, United States This product is a considerably large database in plaintext from a healthcare organization in Farmington, Missouri, United States. It was retrieved from a Microsoft Access database within their internal network using readily available plaintext…
Is LookBook aware?
Well, I wanted to send an inquiry to LookBook to ask them if they were aware of being hacked or a report that their user database was up for sale, but there was no contact method on their web site, and the domain lookup didn’t help, either. So I resorted to tweeting to them, and hope…