KSDK staff report: Two local websites are back up and running after they were hacked by a group that claimed to be the Middle East terror organization ISIS. The two companies that were impacted were MERS Goodwill and a local digital agency named Elasticity. Early Friday morning, web users who went to the site saw…
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Anti-Israeli hackers target Louisiana’ Rapides Parish Police Jury, Bank websites
Waqas writes: The online hacktivist AnonGhost is on a hacking spree with targeting websites of top law enforcement agencies in the United States. A couple of days ago the hacktivists hacked the official website of Larimer County Sheriff’s Office not once but twice in a week. Today, the same group has hacked and defaced the official website of state of Louisiana’s Rapides Parish…
@MarxistAttorney tweet suggests he’s been arrested (corrected and updated)
Update of March 19: “Attorney” informs DataBreaches.net that he was not arrested and was just taking a break. Original post: It appears that a young hacker who goes by the online handle of “Attorney” (@MarxistAttorney on Twitter) has been arrested. In a tweet tonight, he wrote: Well this is the end my friends, it was…
Investigator Admits Guilt in Hiring of a Hacker
Matthew Goldstein reports: A private investigator who has done work for small New York City law firms that specialize in personal injury and medical malpractice litigation pleaded guilty on Friday in federal court in Manhattan to one charge of conspiracy in hiring a hacker to help with his investigation. The guilty plea, by Eric Saldarriaga,…
Three Defendants Charged with One of the Largest Reported Data Breaches in U.S. History
An indictment was unsealed Thursday against two Vietnamese citizens who resided in the Netherlands, for their roles in hacking email service providers throughout the United States. The guilty plea of one of the defendants was also unsealed at the same time. In addition, a federal grand jury returned an indictment this week against a Canadian citizen…
UK Arrests 56 People For Data Theft, Hacking Attacks On Yahoo, DoD, PlayStation Networks
Sneha Shankar reports: U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) conducted 56 arrests in an effort to nab hackers during a “strike week” in the country. Officials conducted 25 different operations and those arrested were suspected of cybercrimes like data theft, fraud and virus writing, the BBC reported. The raids were coordinated by NCA’S National Cyber Crime…