Alex Walker reports: If you’ve ever used the website feedback tracker systems for DayZ or ArmA 3, heads up: developers Bohemia Interactive have just announced a potential security breach, and they’ve taken the systems offline as a result. The attempted security breach was announced via a post on Bohemia’s forums. The developer wrote that the Mantis…
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Linux Mint website hacked, malicious ISO offered on Saturday
Paul Hill reports: In a surprising announcement, Clement Lefebvre — head of the Linux Mint project — said that the Linux Mint website had been compromised and that the hackers were able to edit the site to point to a malicious ISO of Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon edition on Saturday 20th, February. If you downloaded the Cinnamon…
Oregon man pleads guilty to “phishing” celebrity nude photos
AP reports: An Oregon man who accessed hundreds of email accounts and stole explicit photos of celebrities pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony hacking charge in Los Angeles. Andrew Helton of Astoria, Oregon, faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing nude or explicit photos from 13 people, including some unidentified…
Hundreds Of Spotify Premium Accounts Exposed Online (Again)
Shelby Carpenter reports: The black-hat hacker world is at it again–this time, publishing hundreds of Spotify Premium user accounts online. The user info appeared in three different online data dumps on Pastebin starting on Monday. Each dump contained email addresses with their corresponding passwords for Spotify. For some accounts, home countries, account types (such as premium or…
New guilty plea, charges in global press release hacking scheme
Jonathan Stempl reports: A third trader has entered a guilty plea over what U.S. authorities have called a more than $100 million (£70 million) international scheme to hack into newswires that distribute corporate press releases, and use stolen information to conduct insider trading. Arkadiy Dubovoy, 51, pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of conspiracy…
NY: Insurer won’t have to cover Five Guys’ data breach
From the read-your-policy-carefully dept., Eric Anderson reports: The operators of several Five Guys restaurants in the Capital Region won’t be able to collect damages from their insurance company after their computer network was breached in late 2011, the state Appellate Division ruled Thursday. RSVT Holdings, the restaurant operator, had sought to be reimbursed for losses…