Today’s Zaman reports: A total of 13 suspects accused of acting with the Turkish hacker group redhack were acquitted by an Ankara court on Monday. Murat Yılmaz, the head of the Ankara branch of the Contemporary Lawyers Association said while speaking to the media on the ruling, “The court ruling proved wrong the claim that…
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WA: Student hacker disables hundreds of email accounts
KOMO News reports that an unnamed high school student who attends Oak Harbor High School is in trouble for disabling hundreds of email accounts throughout the Oak Harbor School District. “This individual inappropriately obtained passwords to certain accounts,” said Kellie Tormey, Oak Harbor School District. A somewhat surprising aspect to the report is a statement by an…
VN: Vietnamese hackers allegedly steal 50,000 accounts from local telecom giant
Tuoi Tre News reports: More than 50,000 accounts of customers of Vietnam’s state-run telecom giant VNPT were stolen and leaked on the Internet over the weekend, company spokesperson Bui Quoc Viet said Sunday. The accounts, including personal information and login credentials, belong to customers of the VNPT branch in the southern province of Soc Trang,…
Computer Hack in Kazakhstan Exposes Client Emails with Curtis
The American Lawyer reports: Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle has filed a lawsuit on behalf of its client, the Republic of Kazakhstan, after the Gmail accounts and computers of several government officials were hacked and their contents posted online, exposing communications between the officials and the firm. New York-based Curtis litigation partner Jacques Semmelman, who…
FL: Sacred Heart Health System billing information hacked
Carlos Gieseken reports: The billing information of 14,000 Sacred Heart Health System patients was compromised recently when an employee email account of the healthcare provider’s third-party billing vendor was hacked. No medical records were breached, but hackers gained access to patient names, dates of service, dates of birth, diagnoses and procedures, total charges and physician…
Rex Mundi statement on their motives and methods
@RexMundi2015 issued a statement today, to set the record straight. Dear friends and foes, Over the past few months, we have read a series of inaccurate facts about us in the press. We therefore would like to take the time to correct some of the most common misconceptions regarding our activities. – The companies we targeted have…