Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley report: JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM)’s own investigators have found clues that a global network of computers available for hire by sophisticated criminals was used to reroute data stolen from the bank to a major Russian city, according to people familiar with the probe. Like street magicians using sleight of…
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UK: Computer hacker shut down Derbyshire holiday firm website in dispute over payment
Martin Naylor reports: A computer hacker shut down the website of a Derbyshire holiday firm with which he was in dispute “in an act of petty revenge”. A judge told Glyn Berrington that what he had done to Ashbourne-based Menorca Private Owners “was like stealing a workman’s tools”. Derby Crown Court heard how Berrington, 49, had that…
PK: Hackers take down govt websites, leak bank records
A group of Pakistani hackers temporarily brought down several government portals, including that of the Army, and leaked 23,000 bank records in a bid to support the ongoing anti-government protests in the country. The group calling themselves “Anonymous Op Pakistan” hacked over two dozen government websites overnight, a few of which remained inaccessible. Some of…
Namecheap says accounts compromised in hacking incident
Jeremy Kirk reports: Hosting provider Namecheap said Monday hackers compromised some of its users’ accounts, likely using a recently disclosed list of 1.2 billion usernames and passwords compiled by Russian hackers. The “vast majority” of login attempts have failed, wrote Matt Russell, vice president of hosting, on a company blog. Read more on CSOonline. “Likely” used? Interestingly,…
Pirate Bay Swede’s trial set for final stage
From The Local: Swedish Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and his 21-year-old Danish co-defendant are set to appear in Frederiksberg Court in Copenhagen in the latest development in the largest hacking case in Danish history. The two men are accused of stealing social security numbers from Denmark’s national driving licence database, illegally accessing information…
Hacker ‘Rawshark’ disrupts NZ election campaign
Rob O’Neill reports that the hacking of blogger Cameron Slater’s Whale Oil email account, and the exposure of those emails (and other materials apparently not from his email account) in a book and to the media is disrupting national elections in New Zealand: New Zealand cabinet minister Judith Collins resigned yesterday in what appears to…