There’s a follow-up on a hacking case in France that I didn’t report on at the time. Oh well…. thankfully, Catalin Cimpanu has the details: Three hackers who were associated with the Anonymous movement are on trial in Paris, France, after hacking a French police union’s website and dumping the data of 541 police officers…
Category: Hack
UK: Arrest in Norwich International Airport hack case
There’s an update to a hack of Norwich International Airport previously noted on this site. ITV reports that there’s been an arrest in the case, and a 29-year-old man has been charged. His name has not yet been made public. h/t, @arresttracker
UK: Cool Components’ email database taken in apparent data breach
Gareth Halfacree reports on a somewhat atypical breach with a poor incident response by Cool Components: Hobbyist electronics specialist Cool Components has been hit with an apparent data breach in which persons unknown have made off with its customer email list – but the company claims its investigation has turned up no evidence of security issues….
Wakey, Wakey: Breached Credit Union Comes Out of its Shell
From the we-tried-to-notify-you dept. Brian Krebs reports: Notifying people and companies about data breaches often can be a frustrating and thankless job. Despite my best efforts, sometimes a breach victim I’m alerting will come away convinced that I am not an investigative journalist but instead a scammer. This happened most recently this week, when I told a California credit…
RubberStamps.net, Incipio notify customers of breaches
While uKnowKids had a somewhat despicable disclosure of their breach that involved shooting the messenger, here are two positive examples of breach disclosures I came across this week: RubberStamps.net notified about 7,000 customers that its web site was compromised between November 3, 2015 to December 11, 2015. In a well-written letter, Scott Lee, the President and CEO, Superior Labels, Inc. explained that…
Operation Blockbuster Coalition Ties Sony, Other Destructive Attacks to Lazarus Group
Michael Mimoso reports: The nation-state sponsored hacker group allegedly behind the 2014 attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment has been linked to similar intrusions against a number of companies in South Korea including the Dark Seoul and Operation Troy attacks. A coalition of security companies called Operation Blockbuster, including Kaspersky Lab, Novetta, AlienVault, Invincea, ThreatConnect, Volexity, Symantec,…