Carla Rogner reports: Natalie Claus is looking forward to graduating from SUNY Geneseo in December, but first she is focusing on another date on her calendar. On Wednesday, Claus will face a stranger in court, David Mondore, who hacked her snapchat account in December 2019 and sent an explicit photo saved in her private folder to…
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UK: Labour Party discloses cyber attack, members’ data stolen
John Leonard reports: The Labour Party has suffered a ‘cyber incident’ with personal details of members stolen from an unnamed third-party company that handles its membership data. In a statement the party says it was informed of the incident on October 29th and that “a significant quantity of Party data” had been rendered inaccessible. Labour does not give…
Hacker who posted ‘pwned’ on MIAA website says they hoped to help expose security flaws
Tom Westerholm reports: A hacker who goes by the screen names “netsaosa” and “g0retrance” got into the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) website on Monday and posted “pwned,” briefly derailing the release of the MIAA’s official statewide brackets for state tournament games. Reporters noted the delay before MassLive.com’s Meredith Perri realized the site was compromised. A pop-up in…
National Rifle Association hacked by Grief?
This one could be interesting, if verified and depending on what data the threat actors may have acquired. Grief has added the NRA to their dedicated leak site. So far, they have dumped two screencaps and a file with grants information as proof of claim. One of the screencaps included some financial data. Depending on…
Data breach leads to £10k fine for Scottish charity
Graham Martin reports: A prominent Scottish charity has been fined £10,000 for a data protection breach. The action was taken after HIV Scotland sent out an email containing the personal details of dozens of people. The breach involved an email to 105 people, including patient advocates representing people living in Scotland with HIV. Read more…
In: Interstate cyber hackers’ gang busted; 6 held
TNS reports: In a major breakthrough, a joint team of the STF, Sonepat, Gurugram and Panipat police busted an inter-state computer hacker gang involved in getting online competitive exams cleared and arrested six persons in this regard. […] He said they confessed that they had got online and offline exams of Railway clerk, MTS, NIIT,…