Cory Bennett reports: The hacker group Anonymous claims to have released the personal log-in details of roughly 1,415 officials at the United Nations climate conference in Paris. The release was apparently done to protest the recent detention of activists during a climate march in Paris on Sunday. Over 200 people were arrested after clashing with…
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Reserve Bank of Australia computer network breach blamed on Indonesia
Peter Lloyd reports: The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) believes Indonesia was behind a breach of its computer network two years ago. It is the second report of a cyber attack on a key Australian Government department, after China was blamed earlier today for a breach at the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM). The RBA will not confirm…
After asking bank for $3 million ransom, hacker dumps massive customer financial database
Kevin Collier reports that “Hacker Buba,” the individual who allegedly hacked InvestBank in the UAE, has made good on his threat to dump customer bank data if the bank didn’t pay his extortion demand. The means by which that information was posted is striking. Hacker Buba initially tweeted from accounts like @investbank_2, though those were…
Chinese government has arrested hackers it says breached OPM database
If I knew emojis, I’d include one for “highly skeptical” to accompany this story. Ellen Nakashima reports: The Chinese government recently arrested a handful of hackers it says were connected to the breach of Office of Personnel Management’s database earlier this year, a mammoth break-in that exposed the records of more than 22 million current…
State law claims in Anthem breach tossed because ERISA pre-empts
And yet another blow to would-be plaintiffs in data breach litigation: you can’t raise claims under state law if ERISA applies and covers all the claims. Joe Lustig reports: For the second time this year, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has ruled that state law claims arising from Anthem’s February data…
Hacker sent ‘death to the Jews’ text messages after breach in phone network
Paul Farrell reports: A hacker attempted to send more than 4m text messages saying “death to the Jews” by exploiting the network of a global telecommunications company. A Guardian investigation has revealed that data was stolen in 2013 as a result of unauthorised access to the systems of SMSGlobal, which provides messaging services for “some of the world’s…