Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley report: The executive in charge of protecting JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s computer network from hackers has been reassigned, after a year on the job that included controversy over his handling of a massive data breach and the departure of several top security team members. Greg Rattray, a former U.S. Air…
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TeamGhostShell is back… with over 400 databases dumped
Lee J. writes: If you remember @TeamGhostShell from pre 2013, then you are in for a surprise, almost exactly 2 years and 6 months away they have returned with a rampage of leaked data from all sorts of websites. […] So far there has been 444 different databases dumped from sites and sub-domains mostly being education and government based….
Spies Warned Feds About OPM Mega-Hack Danger
Shane Harris reports: Five years ago, U.S. officials refused to merge a database containing classified personnel records of intelligence agency employees with another run by the Office of Personnel Management, fearing that if the two systems were linked up, it could expose the personal information of covert operatives to leakers and hackers. Those concerns look…
Suspected Pro-Kremlin ‘Hell’ Hacker Denies Allegations in German Court
Daria Litvinova reports: Following years of hacking attacks on the online accounts of various Russian opposition figures, a man suspected of being the notorious hacker known as “Hell” — who is believed to have ties to Russian officialdom — is currently standing trial in Germany. The man in the dock of a Bonn court is Sergei Maximov, 41, a German national of Russian descent. He is charged with the theft and deletion of data,…
Court records link Scientology to convicted email hacker
Thomas C. Tobin reports: Federal court documents made public this week have linked the Church of Scientology to a private investigator convicted of illegally culling personal information from dozens of email accounts. The investigator, Eric Saldarriaga, 41, was sentenced Friday to three months in prison for conspiring to engage in computer hacking. He pleaded guilty…
MO: Man acquitted of Washington University-related hacking claims
Robert Patrick reports: A former Washington University employee was acquitted Wednesday of federal computer fraud charges that claimed he’d downloaded protected financial information related to the school’s endowment. David Shen, 45, of New Jersey, was manager of asset allocation and risk management for the Washington University Investment Management Company. Read more on St. Louis Post-Dispatch.