Alex Isenstadt and John Bresnahan report: The House GOP campaign arm suffered a major hack during the 2018 election, exposing thousands of sensitive emails to an outside intruder, according to three senior party officials. The email accounts of four senior aides at the National Republican Congressional Committee were surveilled for several months, the party officials…
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Edmonton Humane Society apologizes after personal financial info ‘accidentally posted’ on its website
Phil Heidenreich reports: The Edmonton Humane Society issued an apology on Tuesday after it says the personal financial information of at least five participants in one of its programs was “accidentally posted on the organization’s corporate website for a short period of time.” Read more on GlobalNews.ca.
Children’s charity Kars4Kids leaks info on 21,000 donors
Bob Diachenko of HackenProof.com reports: Kars4Kids is a charity that asks people to donate their cars, motorcycles, RVs, and real estate. They are most known for their nationwide advertising using their hypnotic theme song where a child and a Johny Cash impersonator sing the phone number and invites people to donate their cars today. On…
Romanian hacker “Guccifer” extradited to U.S. to finish prison sentence: Reports
Andrew Blake reports: Marcel Lehel Lazar, a prolific computer hacker known as “Guccifer,” has been extradited to the United States to finish serving a prison sentence related to a cybercrime spree credited with exposing Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email account while secretary of state, outlets in his native Romania reported Monday. Romania’s Alba…
Computers and voter data stolen from California Democrat’s office in brazen Election Day burglary
Tana Ganeva reports: Democratic candidate for California Senate had her office broken into and sensitive voter information stolen, reports the Merced Sun Star. The burglary occurred on Election Day, as California voters headed to the polls. Read more on RawStory.
FIFA hack threatens further embarrassment to football’s governing body
Tom Macaulay reports: The computer systems of FIFA have been hacked once again and the football federation is braced for more damaging leaks of confidential information. FIFA officials have admitted the hack and expect that a series of stories will promptly be published based on a set of internal documents that were originally obtained by the…