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…
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China Accused Of ‘Massive’ Hack Into AU’s Bureau Of Meteorology
Chris Uhlmann reports: China is being blamed for a major cyber attack on the computers at the Bureau of Meteorology, which has compromised sensitive systems across the Federal Government. Multiple official sources have confirmed the recent attack, and the ABC has been told it will cost millions of dollars to plug the security breach, as other…
Update: Over 84,000 affected by OH Muhlenberg breach
The OH Muhlenberg breach, previously noted on this site, has been added to HHS’s public breach tool. According to the entry, the breach impacted 84,681 patients. Ouch.
NM: Fired by Roadrunner, former employee allegedly took revenge by hacking them and re-routing customer service calls
Kirsten Swanson reports: A Rio Rancho man was arrested for hacking his old employers and posing as a technician, even after police say they charged him with a crime. Gordon Logan is accused of hacking into the servers at Roadrunner Wireless Internet Service. He worked at the company for 16 years. Police started to investigate…
VTech hack included children’s pictures and chat logs (Update 1)
Lorenzo Franceshi-Bicchierai has a follow-up to his early report on VTECH: Over the weekend, the hacker, who asked to remain anonymous, told me that VTech left other sensitive data exposed on its servers, including kids’ photos and chat logs between children and parents. This data is from the company’s Kid Connect, a service that allows parents using…
Data Breach on VTech Learning Lodge (update)
Issued by VTECH today: VTech Holdings Limited noted that an unauthorized party accessed VTech customer data housed on our Learning Lodge app store database on 14 November 2015. Learning Lodge allows our customers to download apps, learning games, e-books and other educational content to their VTech products. Upon discovering the unauthorized access on 24 November…