Jeff Jenkins reports: A Wheeling area high school student was recently able to invade the public education computer network and slow things down including standardized testing that was happening in some counties at the time. West Virginia Department of Education Chief Technology Officer Sterling Beane said it happened last week when the student used an…
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Judge sentences foreign hacker for first time ever in US
There’s an update to a case previously noted on this site. Jessica Masulli Reyes reports: David Pokora, 22, of Ontario, Canada, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. […] The group was responsible for stealing over $100 million worth of intellectual property from major technology companies, including Microsoft,…
Massive TalkTalk data breach STILL causing customer scam tsunami
Kat Hall reports: A fresh wave of scammers appear to be targeting TalkTalk customers, following a massive data theft earlier this year, The Register has learned. In February, TalkTalk admitted to suffering a major breach into its users’ sensitive information, which may have led to some customers handing over bank data to hackers. Read more on The Register.
NC: Wake County Public Schools take servers offline after DDoS attack
WRAL reports: Officials with the Wake County Public School System said Wednesday that they took dozens of school websites offline after a server was hit by hackers. The attack happened several weeks ago on a server that hosts 54 of the 178 websites operated by the school system. WCPSS spokeswoman Lisa Luten said the hack…
Dem: USIS data breach affected more than 27K
Elise Viebeck reports: The number of individuals victimized in a cyberattack on a major background investigation service is higher than previously reported, the House Oversight Committee’s top Democrat said Wednesday. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) reported that the initial estimate of 27,000 federal employees compromised in the breach of government contractor USIS is now believed to…
Ca: Detour Gold Corporation hacked
It looks like Detour Gold Corporation (TSX: DGC) was massively hacked. In a paste by “Angel_of_Truth,” the hackers explain their motivation in both Russian and then English: This attack on a Canadian company is retribution for Canada’s sanctions on Russia, And the ongoing efforts to undermine Russia by the West. Below is some of the data that was…