Carl Schreck reports: A German court has convicted a notorious hacker of cybercrimes linked to the theft of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navanly’s emails and the hijacking of his Twitter account. A district court in Bonn on August 5 handed Sergei Maksimov, a Russian-born German resident, an 18-month suspended sentence after finding him guilty of hacking…
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‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Backer Says It Has Been Hacked, Surveilled and Harassed
Eriq Gardner reports: Red Granite Pictures, the finance company behind The Wolf of Wall Street, Dumb and Dumber To and the upcoming Will Ferrell-Mark Wahlberg comedy Daddy’s Home, claims in a new lawsuit that it has been the subject of a malicious hack that has intimidated employees and disrupted its business. According to a complaint filed against anonymous individuals on Wednesday,…
MA: Local girl with rare condition has fundraising money stolen
Hackers stole hundreds of dollars from a bank account a young child had created to buy toys for other sick children. MyFoxBoston has the story: Noelle Gregoire first started raising money in “Laps for Backs” after she was inspired by her own trips to Tufts Floating Hospital. Gregoire suffers from a rare degenerative spinal condition,…
Sri Lankan Prime Minister’s Office Website Hacked
Waqas writes: The Sri Lankan prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has his office website hacked by a hacktivist who hacks for #ForSyria. A hacker going with the handle of Dr.MwNs has hacked and defaced the official website of Prime Minister’s Office Sri Lanka earlier today. Read more on HackRead.
Facebook Hijacking Case Revived by 2nd Circuit
Adam Klasfeld reports: In a case involving sex, cyberbullying and the statute of limitations, a schoolteacher filed her lawsuit just in time to accuse of (sic) her ex-boyfriend of taking over her Facebook account to post obscene messages, the Second Circuit ruled on Tuesday. The court warned in its opinion that the case demonstrates the “troubling” predicament…
(Hacked yet again) How one user ‘hacked’ the OnePlus 2 invite system
Nirave Gondhia reports: Update 2: After OnePlus emailed Jack Cooper to say they were patching the exploit that allowed him to hack the invite system (see original article bottom followed by the update below), Jake decided to hack the system yet again. This time, he used a couple of methods he first discovered when attempting to hack it the first…