Cl: Guacamaya Group leaks emails from Joint Chiefs of Staff El Estado Mayor Conjunto De Chile (EMCO), the advisory body of the Chilean Ministry of Defense, was the victim of a data leak. Thousands of emails were leaked online by the hacktivist group, Guacamaya in “Operation Repressive Forces. About 10TB of emails from military and…
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Bjorka, the Online Hacker Trying To Take Down the Indonesian Government
Aisyah Llewellyn reports: The first that Indonesia heard about the hacker now known as Bjorka came when news broke at the beginning of September of a massive data leak. Some 1.3 billion SIM card registration details were stolen and listed for sale on a dark web online marketplace. The data was harvested in part as…
DESORDEN leaks more data from Indonesia; “Indo data is officially worthless”
The DESORDEN group recently announced that due to the flood of personal information on Indonesians, they were giving up on attacking Indonesian entities. But they also noted that they already had some attacks in progress that they would still be leaking. Today, they announced one of those attacks on a popular hacking-related forum where data…
AU: ‘One of the most serious cyberattacks’: Customer data exposed in Optus hack
Nick Bonyhady reports: Hackers have breached Optus’ systems in one of the largest cyberattacks in Australian history, accessing names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses and driver’s licence numbers of millions of the telecommunications giant’s customers. Well-placed sources not authorised to speak publicly said that up to 9 million customers had been…
UK: Six UK schools hit by cyberattack on multi-academy trust
Matthew Gooding reports: A cyberattack on a multi-academy trust which runs schools serving 4,500 pupils has left staff without access to digital systems for more than a week, Tech Monitor understands. The Scholars’ Education Trust suffered the breach last week, and at the time of writing many of its internal systems remain offline. The trust runs six schools in…
UK: Email blunder sees school send details of vulnerable children to all pupils
David Hannant reports: Parents are calling for an investigation into a Norfolk school after an email containing confidential details of students’ mental health was mistakenly sent to all pupils. Wymondham High Academy has confirmed a staff member accidentally sent a message containing information about children who were referred to its wellbeing services with anxiety to the entire school. Read more at…