Latestly reports: Unknown hackers attacked the checkpoints of the PickPoint online order delivery service in Russia’s capital Moscow. The reports about the cyber attack surfaced on Friday. According to reports, the doors of PickPoint checkpoints began to open automatically. Read more on Latestly.com. h/t, @Chum1ng0
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: School IT teacher, 40, is jailed for six years after he hacked into his pupils’ mobile phones to steal naked selfies from teenage girls and store them on his computer
Joe Davies reports: A school IT teacher was jailed for six years today after hacking his pupils’ phones to steal naked selfies of teenage girls and storing them on his computer. High school technology expert Richard Edmunds, 40, told pupils he could fix their broken devices but took their private nude picture when he took…
AU: How paper created a vulnerability for cyber criminals to steal 186,000 people’s data
Lucy Cormack reports: When the personal data of 186,000 people was breached in a phishing attack on Service NSW in March, the weakness cyber criminals were able to exploit was actually paper. Passports, banking and Medicare details were potentially exposed in photocopied and scanned paper documents stored inside the email accounts of 47 Service NSW…
Shirbit declines to pay hackers as it faces further threats of leaked documents, increased ransom
This is like watching a train wreck…. i24News reports: Cyberattack hackers said they’d leak more of the company’s data if it failed to pay $1 million bitcoin ransom. Israel’s Shirbit insurance company, which has reportedly been the victim of an extensive data breach carried out by the Black Shadow group, refused to meet a 9…
AT: Corona mass tests: Cyber attack and data breach paralyzed website
Josef Gebhard reports (translated): On Wednesday midnight, the website of the Ministry of Health went online, where you can register for the corona mass tests. For now, the offer is only available for Vienna, where the tests will start at three locations next Friday. But just a few hours after www.österreich-testet.at started , the first problems arose . Numerous users complained…
AT: Cyber attack causes chaos in the Braunau town hall
Mario Zeko reports (translation): “The IT servers of the municipality of Braunau am Inn were the target of a hacker attack,” confirmed Mayor Johannes Waidbacher (ÖVP) and city office director Andreas Reiter of the “Krone” yesterday. Who is behind the attack is just as unclear as the details of the crime. “The responsible authorities were informed…