Kim Zetter reports: Former Reuters social media editor Matthew Keys is facing up to 25 years in prison after his conviction last month on conspiracy charges related to a 2010 hack of the Los Angeles Times web site. Although Keys didn’t actually conduct the hack, prosecutors aggressively pursued him anyway. Now it turns out that authorities have known…
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JPMorgan Among Victims of Vast Criminal Hacking Enterprise
Greg Farrell and Patricia Hurtado report: JPMorgan Chase & Co. was among the targets of the biggest theft of customer data from U.S. financial institutions in history, prosecutors said in announcing charges against four men accused of running online schemes including stock manipulation and casino gambling that generated hundreds of millions of dollars. The new allegations…
We talked to people close to the TalkTalk hack before the arrests began — and they told us why they allegedly did it
Rob Price reports on interviews with some of those suspected of, or claiming to, have participated in the TalkTalk hack. You can read it all on Business Insider.
AU: Queensland TAFE student data exposed in hack
Asha Barbaschow reports: TAFE Queensland has experienced a breach that has seen the personal details of thousands of the state’s TAFE students exposed. Queensland Attorney General Yvette D’Ath insists, however, the cyber attack did not uncover anything that wouldn’t be available in a phone book. D’Ath played down the IT system hack on Tuesday morning…
UK: Social networking site xat hacked; user database acquired by hacker(s)
Oh my. Update and Information About Data Breach. Hello! Many of you will have noticed the serious problems with the xat service over the last two days. It would appear that our hosting provider fell for a simple social engineering scam and briefly handed control of some of xat’s servers to a third party. It…
UK: Parliament HACKED: Sensitive data STOLEN, used to hold MP to ransom
Aaron Brown reports: Cybercrooks hacked into parliament’s secure network and compromise several computers, The Times has claimed. The hackers unearthed confidential documents relating to MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central, Chi Onwurah – the shadow digital minister – and her employees. The hack is the first report of a successful cyberattack against the secure parliament network, which…