Catherine Hardy reports: Police in France say they now think the cyber attack on TV5 Monde in April was the work of a group of Russian hackers known as APT28, and not the group calling itself Islamic State, as originally suggested. Jihadist propaganda was posted on TV5’s website during the infiltration in April. Details of…
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Updates on OPM breach(es)
Some bits ‘n pieces of the follow-ups on the OPM hack… Malia Zimmerman reports: In addition to data from the OPM breach, Roberts said a new OWL search has uncovered another 9,500 government log-in credentials stolen this week from a variety of county, state and federal agencies across the nation, for everything from the Obamacare…
Lithuanian Military Website hacked to post false information
giu writes: If we had to believe what we saw on Lithuanian Armed Forces website on Thursday morning, then the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), an alliance of countries from North America and Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in 1949, is preparing for the annexation of Kaliningrad, Russia’s…
Sex, lies and debt potentially exposed by OPM hack
Arshad Mohammed and Joseph Menn report: When a retired 51-year-old military man disclosed in a U.S. security clearance application that he had a 20-year affair with his former college roommate’s wife, it was supposed to remain a secret between him and the government. The disclosure last week that hackers had penetrated a database containing such…
Zappos proposed data breach class action litigation dismissed
Kathryn Sylvia reports: Continuing the growing trend of dismissing data breach cases when there is no evidence of actual harm, the United States District Court for the District of Nevada last week dismissed a class action case filed against Zappos related to a 2012 hacking incident. Following the hacking incident, Zappos provided notice of the data…
Bahrain human rights watchdog says victim of hacking
Sarah Townsend reports: A Bahraini human rights group claims its website and Twitter account has been hacked by anti-government protesters. The Bahraini Human Rights Watch Society’s website www.bhrws.org and Twitter account @bhrws2004 have been suspended since Saturday, according to reports. It happened shortly before the group’s secretary-general Faisal Fulad was due to attend the 29th…