Andrea Peterson reports: One of the scariest parts of the massive cybersecurity breaches at the Office of Personnel Management just got worse: The agency now says 5.6 million people’s fingerprints were stolen as part of the hacks. That’s more than five times the 1.1 million figure the agency had cited in earlier updates after the…
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Hackers intercept NZ taxidermy company’s invoices, trick clients
Nick Truebridge reports: A South Canterbury business has been hit by hackers who intercepted its invoices and prompted clients to deposit money into foreign bank accounts. Kerry O’Rourke, a part-owner in Pleasant Point’s O’Rourke Brothers Taxidermy, said far only one of O’Rourke’s clients has been sucked into the scam, losing “probably about €2000 ($3583) into an…
VacationRentPayment notifies customers whose account application information was hacked
YapStone (VacationRentPayments) is notifying some property managers and others who use their service to receive vacation rental payments that personal information in their account applications was compromised by unauthorized persons. In a letter dated September 11, YapStone CEO Thomas J. Villante writes that email and postal address, Social Security number, driver’s license number, date of birth, and bank…
U.S. SEC fines advisory firm for shoddy controls following cyber attack traced to China
Sarah N. Lynch reports: A St. Louis-based investment advisory firm will pay $75,000 to settle civil charges alleging it failed “entirely” to protect its clients from a July 2013 cyber attack that was later traced to China, U.S. regulators said on Tuesday. The Securities and Exchange Commission said R.T. Jones Capital Equities Management did not…
Anonymous Hacks Vietnam Govt websites Against Human Rights Abuse
Waqas writes: The online hacktivists affiliated to Anonymous, AntiSec and HagashTeam conducted a cyber attack on Vietnamese government websites against online censorship and human rights violations in the country. The hacktivist groups left a deface page along with a message on 8 Vietnamese government websites against the imprisonment of thousands of political prisoners. Read more on…
‘Hack for Trump’ group demands $30k from Bahamian Bank
Neil Hartnell reports: Hackers are trying to extort $30,000 from the Bahamas-based Fidelity Group of Companies, which yesterday moved to reassure clients there had been no widespread leak of personal financial data. Anwer Sunderji, Fidelity’s chairman, confirmed to Tribune Business that a group called ‘Hack for Trump’ had contacted it and demanded a ransom payment…