ANI reports: Some of the user accounts of Telecom’s YahooXtra have been reportedly compromised, following a security breach, which is apparently affecting non-Telecom customers as well. Telecom said that Yahoo had acknowledged an email security breach that compromised some YahooXtra email accounts. According to a website, spokeswoman Lucy Fullarton said that Yahoo was investigating the…
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‘Biggest’ global hacking network busted, Pune man held
Neeraj Chauhan of TNN reports: In what is being termed as the biggest international hacking scandal, possibly involving corporates, associations and big individuals, coordinated raids were conducted by investigative agencies in India, China and Romania, on the basis of intelligence fromFederal Bureau of Investigation about the “organised hacking” happening in three countries and others. In India, the Central Bureau…
Guccifer Arrested: Marcel Lazăr Lehel ID’d As Hacker Who Uncovered George W. Bush Paintings, Colin Powell Affair Allegations
Howard Koplowitz reports: Guccifer, the hacker who infiltrated the email accounts of influential Americans and released former President George W. Bush’s paintings and exposed an alleged affair of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, was arrested Wednesday in Romania. Guccifer has been identified as 42-year-old Marcel Lazăr Lehel, a former cab driver who was sentenced…
Court guts much of class action lawsuit against Sony over data breach, but some claims remain
An order handed down yesterday by a federal judge in the Southern District of California in In re: SONY GAMING NETWORKS AND CUSTOMER DATA SECURITY BREACH LITIGATION gutted much of the plaintiffs’ lawsuit against Sony over their 2011 PlayStation hack, but allows some important claims to go forward. As background, Judge Battaglia summarized the litigation in the First…
Hackers access 16 million email accounts
Millions of Germans have had their passwords and usernames for websites stolen, the country’s Federal Office for Online Security (BSI) revealed on Tuesday. The BSI said 16 million accounts containing passwords and email addresses had been compromised, according to information passed to it by law enforcement agencies and research institutions. Authorities have set up a website…
Identity info of every licensed physician in Puerto Rico acquired in hack (updated)
Associated Press reports that the personal information of all licensed medical doctors in Puerto Rico was acquired in a recent hack. They report that since the hack, doctors have been getting harassing emails, but it’s not clear from their reporting as to what information was accessed or acquired in the intrusion, other than the statement from…