KFSM reports: A significant portion of Tontitown’s city computers have been shut down, after a series of viruses and hacks completely jammed computers. According to Mayor Paul Colvin, the viruses have severely slowed down computers within several city departments, including the water and police departments. Police Chief Joey McCormick said the city has been hacked…
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DayZ forums hacked, user info and passwords stolen
Andy Chalk reports: The DayZ development team tweeted on January 23 that its forums had suffered “an outside security breach,” and recommended that users change their passwords, “just in case.” Today it put out a more detailed and dire message, indicating that the situation is rather worse than it first appeared. “A security incident occurred on forums.dayzgame.com recently. According to…
Web.com Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Data Breach
Melissa LaFreniere reports: Web.com faces a potential class action lawsuit over allegations that the website builder failed to provide reasonable security measures to keep the personal information of their clients safe. Lead plaintiff Morgorna Mohorne filed the Web.com class action lawsuit after a data breach in August 2015 allegedly left her credit and debit card…
Interior Ministry: Hackers’ attack against Russian banks in 2015 affected Visa, MasterCard
TASS reports: An attack against the Russian banking system made by hackers last year compromised Visa and MasterCard international payment systems, representative of the Cybercrime Department of the Russian Interior Ministry Alexander Vurasko said on Thursday. “The specificity of that [hackers’] ring was that they managed to compromise the largest international payment systems, including Visa…
Student charged with hacking N.C. high school’s computer system, changing grades
Andrew Blake reports a follow-up to a hack previously noted on this site. A teenager was arrested in North Carolina on Wednesday after a months-long investigation led authorities to believe that he broke into a high school computer system and altered several students’ grades in a Ferris Bueller-styled hack. High school senior Saivamsi Hanumanthu, 17,…
Hackers leak Thai prison data files in ongoing protest against Koh Tao convictions
Asian Correspondent staff report: Hackers on Wednesday leaked a trove of data files stolen from Thai prison websites in their ongoing protest over the conviction and treatment of two Burmese men sentenced to death for murdering two British tourists in Koh Tao in 2014. Associating themselves with the “Anonymous” collective of hackers, they claimed to have obtained…