Christopher J. Eberhart reports: Records containing firefighters’ personal information — including Social Security numbers, names, addresses and phone numbers — were found in the condemned firehouse in downtown Yonkers. The personnel records were misfiled under the previous administration, according to Fire Commissioner Robert Sweeney, and left in the New School Street firehouse before the Yonkers Fire…
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Impatient former Hong Kong library worker arrested after stealing customers’ personal data to borrow books faster
I know, I know. It’s a crime and it’s very very wrong, but I’d be curious to meet this woman and ask her about what appears to be her voracious reading habits. Danny Mok of the South China Morning Post recently reported: A bibliophile who worked in a Hong Kong public library has been arrested for using…
UK: Bible Society fined £100,000 by ICO after security failings put 417,000 supporters’ personal data at risk
The British and Foreign Bible Society, based in Swindon, has been fined £100,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office, after their computer network was compromised as the result of a dharma variant ransomware attack in 2016. Between November and December 2016, the intruders used a brute force attack and exploited remote access that had been secured…
Manuel Delia’s Blog Cyber-Attacked By Ukrainian Hackers On A Scale ‘Rarely Seen On Other Maltese Websites’
Tom Diacono reports: Journalist-blogger Manuel Delia has warned his blog is being targeted by Ukrainian hackers in what he described as one of the most vicious cyber-attacks in Maltese history. “The storm has been raging for most of this week and every effort of the technical team to counter the attack is met by a…
Two Members of Syrian Electronic Army Indicted for Conspiracy
May 17 – ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A federal grand jury returned an 11-count indictment today charging two Syrian men with offenses relating to their participation in a conspiracy to engage in computer hacking as members of the “Syrian Electronic Army” or “SEA.” Ahmad ‘Umar Agha, who is known online as the “The Pro,” and Firas Dardar,…
Hacker Dumps Data Stolen From Government-Linked Cyberespionage Group
Joseph Cox reports: Last week, Motherboard reported that a vigilante hacker had stolen data from a hacking group that researchers say is a government-linked cyberespionage unit. The data included GPS locations, text messages, and phone calls that the group had taken from their own victims. Now, that hacker has seemingly published the stolen data online…