Katlyn Smith provides an update on a previously noted breach: Two 16-year-old Bartlett High School students face felony charges after authorities say they hacked into the school’s computer system. One of the male students was charged with aggravated computer tampering and the other was charged with computer fraud, police said Tuesday. Their names are not…
Category: Hack
Third Member of International Computer Hacking Ring Pleads Guilty to Hacking and Intellectual Property Theft Conspiracy
Dark Reading reports: A third member of an international computer hacking ring has pleaded guilty to conspiring to break into computer networks of prominent technology companies to steal more than $100 million in intellectual property and other proprietary data. […] Nathan Leroux, 20, of Bowie, Maryland, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit computer intrusions and…
AU: Vic university results not hacked: VTAC
The AU AP reports: Students gained early access to an off-limits website though the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC) says its system was not hacked. […] “The exposure was limited to an applicant being able to retrieve their own (university) offer prior to the published release time.” Students only gained early access to their own…
Another Lizard Arrested, Lizard Lair Hacked
I should have noted this one last week. My bad. Brian Krebs reports: In an unrelated development, not long after this publication broke the news that the Lizard Squad’s attack infrastructure is built on a network of thousands of hacked home Internet routers, someone hacked LizardStresser[dot]su, the Web site the group uses to coordinate attacks and sell subscriptions…
UK: Customer records left exposed after shoe company data breach
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a press release indicating that high street and online shoe retailer Office has signed an undertaking following a hacking incident the ICO was informed about on May 29, 2014. According to details in the undertaking, a member of the public had hacked into an unencrypted historic Office database that was being stored on a legacy server outside…
C’mon, folks, you really need to acknowledge breach notifications, Monday edition
I haven’t kept strict statistics, but in general, most entities that I try to notify of a breach fail to respond at all. Others may respond that they’re looking into claimed hacks, but then fail to get back to me with a definitive answer or statement. Here’s another case in point: On January 10, I…