Nathan Ingraham reports: Earlier this year, a hacking group broke into the personal email account of CIA director John Brenner and published a host of sensitive attachments that it got its hands on (yes, Brenner should not have been using his AOL email address for CIA business). Now, Wired reports the group has hit a much more sensitive and presumably secure target:…
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Investigation continues into Cardinals’ hacking of Astros system
Evan Drellich reports: Now that the offseason has arrived, the fall and/or winter likely will bring an update in some form from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas on the criminal investigation into the Cardinals’ unauthorized access of Astros information — the hacking scandal that involved the Astros’ database named “Ground Control.”…
CA: Berkeley High student linked to racist ‘screen hack’
Emilie Raguso and Lance Knobel report: Berkeley High School administrators say they have identified the student responsible for a “screen hack” in the library Wednesday that displayed racist threats against African Americans. Berkeley High Principal Sam Pasarow said, during a press conference Thursday afternoon, that a student, believed to have been acting alone, was responsible for the…
UK: Popular postcard app Touchnote suffers data breach
Dan Thorp-Lancaster reports: The team behind Touchnote, a popular Android app for sending photos you’ve taken as postcards, has sent an email out to customers announcing that the service was hit by a data breach, resulting in customer information such as name and address being accessed. Read more on Android Central. From the FAQ on…
In a first, the FCC is fining a major cable company for getting hacked
Brian Fung reports: In the first such case against a U.S. cable company, federal regulators are slapping Cox Communications with a $595,000 fine after Cox allowed hackers from Lizard Squad to penetrate its systems and steal private customer information. By posing as an IT administrator and tricking a couple of Cox employees into giving up their login credentials, a…
NC: Hacker changes grades at Panther Creek High School in Cary
T. Keung Hui reports: Cary Police are investigating after a hacker broke into the computer system at Panther Creek High School and changed the grades for some students, altering class ranks during the important college application period. In a letter posted on the school’s website Thursday, Panther Creek High Principal Camille Hedrick told families that the…