From the University of California – Berkeley: UC Berkeley officials are sending alert notices to approximately 80,000 current and former faculty, staff, students and vendors following a criminal cyberattack on a system storing their Social Security or bank account numbers. The campus has no evidence that any unauthorized individual actually accessed, acquired or used any…
Category: Hack
IRS “Get Transcript” breach much bigger than first thought – now more than 700K victims
Andrew Taylor of AP reports: The IRS says the number of taxpayers whose tax information may have been stolen by computer hackers now exceeds 700,000 — more than double the agency’s previous estimate. The tax collecting agency says 390,000 more taxpayer accounts may have compromised than the 334,000 it warned about a year and a…
Anonymous: Turkish government cracks down on Twitter ‘hacktivists’ over leak of police data
Jason Murdock reports: The Turkish government has retaliated against a number of Twitter profiles that posted links to a compromised database stolen from a national police server. The users, which includes two Anonymous-affiliated accounts, sent out notifications to millions of followers containing a direct link to a huge 17.8GB-sized trove of sensitive data earlier this month. One…
U. Central Florida facing second lawsuit over data breach
If one lawsuit is good, two is better, right? Gabrielle Russon reports: A former UCF men’s basketball team manager who claims his bank account was drained has filed the second lawsuit this month over a computer hack where 63,000 Social Security numbers from former and current students and employees were stolen. UCF’s handling of people’s…
Three associated with “Anonymous” on trial in Paris for hacking police union
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…
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