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…
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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…
Suspected Member of Anonymous Arrested After Rescue At Sea During Disney Cruise
Tom Winter and Corky Siemaszko report: A suspected hacker from Massachusetts landed in hot water Wednesday a day after he was rescued at sea by a Disney cruise ship. Martin Gottesfeld was arrested by the FBI in Miami and charged with conspiracy for allegedly helping to launch a computer attack on Boston Children’s Hospital as part…
British teenager arrested for ‘trying to hack into FBI computer networks’
Has another member of CWA been arrested? It sounds like it, but law enforcement hasn’t said so definitively. Jamie Bullen reports: A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Glasgow for allegedly trying to hack into FBI computer networks. Police Scotland questioned the boy earlier this week watched on by FBI agents flown in from the…