Chris Strohm, Michael Riley, and Jordan Robertson report: The vast cyber-attack in Washington began with, of all things, travel reservations. More than two years ago, troves of personal data were stolen from U.S. travel companies. Hackers subsequently made off with health records at big insurance companies and infiltrated federal computers where they stole personnel records…
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Anonymous Fights Animal Cruelty by Exposing Email Orders to Kill Bear Cubs
Farzan Hussain writes: This weekend, Bryce Casavant who is a Canadian conservation officer was suspended from duty when he denied the orders to kill two black bear cubs after their mother was killed for repetitively raiding a freezer located at Port Hardy which was filled with salmon and meat. Now a series of emails has been released…
In: ISRO arm Antrix’s website hacked?
FPJ reports: In a major security breach, Indian space agency ISRO’s commercial arm Antrix’s website has been defaced, possibly by the Chinese. Antrix markets the satellite launch services and other space data for global customers. Incidentally, on Friday ISRO had launched five British satellites. Antrix’s website was hacked a couple of days back and the…
Cloudminr.io Hacked, User Database Put Up For Sale
Users of the “cloud mining” service Cloudminr.io were greeted with an unwelcome surprise when they showed up at the site in the last several hours: a CSV (comma separated values) file containing a sample of the entire user database for the website. The whole site is apparently for sale, and the hackers appear to have…
Hacking Team chief: ‘We’re the GOOD GUYS fighting crims and rooting out lone wolves’
Oh ho. Kelly Fiveash reports that Hacking Team claims it was the victim of a state actor: The boss of Italian spyware vendor Hacking Team has spoken for the first time about the mass hack on the beleaguered company’s data – which has exposed severe software security holes and gifted terrorists with zero-day exploits. David Vincenzetti, in an…
Walmart Canada looks into possible credit card data breach
Ahmad Hathout and David Berman report: Walmart Canada is investigating a potential breach of customer credit card data after one of its websites operated by a third party was compromised. […] A source close to the situation told The Globe and Mail that as many as 60,000 customers could be affected. According to Walmart’s website,…