Tina Macias reports: The Opelousas man, Rory Guidry, arrested last week for his alleged part in a nationwide cybercrime ring will remain behind bars without bond, pending a mental health evaluation, a Lafayette federal judge ruled today. Guidry, 28, is charged with computer fraud and accused of attempting to sell access to a “botnet,” a…
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More escort-related services hacked
Of course, the big news today was the hack of AshleyMadison.com and the potential embarrassment it may cause to those using its services to have affairs. Not to be deterred from his mission, however, @ElSurveillance continued attacking escort-related sites, posting the same message on their home page that he’s posted in the past: Dear Admin and the…
Ex-employees probed in attack on Hacking Team
Manuela D’Alessandro of Reuters reports: Milan prosecutors are investigating six former employees of surveillance software maker Hacking Team in connection with a massive attack on the data system of the Italian cybersecurity firm, sources familiar with the case said on Friday. […]Investigative sources said the six suspects had already been placed under investigation in…
Statement From Avid Life Media Inc. (AshleyMadison breach)
TORONTO, July 20, 2015 — We were recently made aware of an attempt by an unauthorized party to gain access to our systems. We immediately launched a thorough investigation utilizing leading forensics experts and other security professionals to determine the origin, nature, and scope of this incident. We apologize for this unprovoked and criminal intrusion…
Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked
Brian Krebs reports: Large caches of data stolen from online cheating site AshleyMadison.com have been posted online by an individual or group that claims to have completely compromised the company’s user databases, financial records and other proprietary information. The still-unfolding leak could be quite damaging to some 37 million users of the hookup service, whose slogan is…
Another escort service-related site hacked with data dumped
@ElSurveillance, who has attacked a number of escort service-related sites such as the MeetMeInYourCity.com hack, has released another data dump tonight – this one for Captain 69™ Worldwide Escort Reviews. @ElSurveillance posted 2,653 usernames and passwords from the UK site, with a note pointing people to crackstation.net to crack the sha256 to plain-text passwords. Well, at least the site tried to secure…