Jon Seidel reports that NullCrew member Timothy J. French pleaded guilty this morning in federal court in Chicago. NullCrew’s attacks on Bell Canada, University of Virginia, Spokeo, Comcast, and other entities have been covered in the past on this site (search NullCrew), and many of NullCrew’s “Fuck the System!” newsletters and YouTube videos remain available online. During one…
Category: Hack
Blog of News Site “The Independent” Hacked, Leads to TeslaCrypto Ransomware
Joseph C. Chen reports: NOTE: This is a developing story. Please watch this space for updates as we continue to dig into the technical details of this attack. The blog page of one of the leading media sites in the United Kingdom, “The Independent” has been compromised, which may put its millions of readers at risk of getting…
UK: NexusMods reports database breach
Chris Scott Barr reports: Nexus Mods announced that they had a potential database breach. The breach includes information for about 6 million users, but there’s good news. The database that was breached was last updated on July 22nd, 2013. So if you’ve registered for an account after that date, you’re probably safe. Also, if you’ve…
Wetherspoons Hacker Speaks: ‘I Did It Simply Because I Could’
Joseph Cox reports: Last week, Wetherspoons, a popular UK pub chain, announced that one of its websites had been breached. The hacker got away with the names, dates of birth, email addresses, and phone numbers of potentially 656,723 customers, as well as the partial payment card data of 100 people. Then late on Monday night, the hacker responsible,…
MaineGeneral Health notifying employees and patients after FBI alerts them to breach
A message from Chuck Hays, CEO, MaineGeneral Health December 8, 2015 Dear Valued Community Member: MaineGeneral Health and its subsidiaries (MaineGeneral Medical Center, MaineGeneral Rehabilitation and Long Term Care, MaineGeneral Retirement Community and MaineGeneral Community Care) have learned it has had a cyber attack on its computer network. On November 13, 2015, MaineGeneral was notified…
Final notices going out this week to the 21 million people whose data was stolen in the OPM breach
Eric Yoder reports: The last of the notices are set to go out this week to the more than 21 million people whose personal information was stolen in a cyber breach of government security clearance files, with about 1.5 million of those having signed up so far for identity and credit monitoring services. Read more…