Re-posted with the permission of one of the breach notification recipients.  🙂 The following data breach notification has come into our possession. Matt Blaze       Andrea Matwyshyn —————- December 25, 2015 Dear current or former child: Our North Pole Operations Center was recently the target of a malicious cyber intrusion, which resulted in the theft of…
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Costa Rica Government Website Hacked by Pro-ISIS Group
Jaime Lopez reports: An internal page within the website of the Ministry of the Environment in Costa Rica (Spanish acronym:Â MINAE) were hacked by an Egyptian group claiming allegiance to the Cyber Caliphate, an extremist branch of ISIS. There’s much more, but one somewhat surprising note: It is interesting to note that the hackers who claimed…
Livestream alerts customers it may have been hacked
Roberto Baldwin reports: Nothing says yuletide cheer like a cup of egg nog, a roaring fire and reseting the password on a video streaming service. Livestream is alerting customers that an “unauthorized person may have accessed our customer account database.” If you have an account with the service, now is a good time to head over there…
AU: “Cambridge five” govt hacker escapes jail time
AAP reports: A man who used the names of famous British spies, the so called “Cambridge five”, to hack into a government computer network has escaped an immediate jail term. Paul David Hellander set up fake accounts in 2013 to gain access to the South Australian government’s database of translators and interpreters. His action was…
Cybersleuth’s scary find: Hackers, some at least Iran-based, can control dated U.S. power grid networks
AP reports: Security researcher Brian Wallace was on the trail of hackers who had snatched a California university’s housing files when he stumbled into a larger nightmare: Cyberattackers had opened a pathway into the networks running the U.S. power grid. Read more on The Japan Times.
Iranian Hackers Infiltrated New York Dam in 2013
Danny Yadron reports: Iranian hackers infiltrated the control system of a small dam less than 20 miles from New York City two years ago, sparking concerns that reached to the White House, according to former and current U.S. officials and experts familiar with the previously undisclosed incident. Read more on WSJ.