A former locally-employed staff member of the U.S. Embassy in London was charged with engaging in a hacking and cyberstalking scheme in which, using stolen passwords, he obtained sexually explicit photographs and other personal information from victims’ email and social media accounts, and threatened to share the photographs and personal information unless the victims ceded…
Category: Hack
NZ Privacy Commissioner warns that republishing AshleyMadison data may violate NZ law
Radio New Zealand reports: Material is emerging on the internet which lists personal data, including thousands of email addresses which appear to belong to New Zealanders. Customer data from the dating site for married people who want to cheat on their spouse was reportedly leaked on the “dark web”, meaning it is accessible only via…
Police nab Korean-Chinese hacker suspected of developing mobile spyware
Yonhap News reports: A Korean-Chinese hacker has been arrested on suspicion of developing mobile spyware that can not only steal one’s financial data but also bug Android smartphones, police said Wednesday. Seoul Gwanak Police Station said the 27-year-old Seo was arrested on Aug. 5 in southern Seoul on charges of developing spyware that can be…
FBI website hacker Charlton Floate, 19, facing jail for cyber attacks
Ross McCarthy reports: A teenage hacker who brought down FBI and Home Office websites from his family home in Solihull has been warned he faces jail. Charlton Floate, 19, used his internet expertise to target the US and British government sites, causing them to crash. The teenager, of Starbold Crescent, Knowle, previously admitted three charges under the Computer Misuse…
UK: Mumsnet founder ‘swatted by misogynist griefers’
John Leyden reports: Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts and another user were both targeted in swatting attacks at the apex of a series of hack attacks that may have led to the compromise of user logins at the high-profile, UK-based parenting site. […] Roberts fell victim to just such an attack in the middle of the…
AshleyMadison data dumped (Update 3)
AS YOU WERE (UPDATE 3): Maybe we shouldn’t believe AshleyMadison’s denials. Despite AshleyMadison’s statement to Brian Krebs last night, a number of professionals who have been looking into the data dump believe it is authentic. The Guardian was able to verify the details on one of their journalists who had signed up for the site as…