Stav Namer/Maariv reports: A cyber criminal who goes by the name “sangkanicil” is claiming to have stolen the personal information of around seven million Israelis, approximately 80% of Israel’s population, by hacking into a website used by municipalities – City4U. If this is the truth – it could be one of the biggest and most significant hacks…
Category: Non-U.S.
Credit unions demand assurances from Central Bank after data leak blunder
Charlie Weston reports: A leading credit union body is seeking assurances from the Central Bank that it can protect the personal data of people who have to register with it. The call from the Irish League of Credit Unions comes after the Central Bank mistakenly gave out the names and home addresses of credit union…
Hacker puts stolen data online because college refuses to pay
Cybercrimeinfo.nl reports: The hacker who earlier this month stole data from students and employees of the Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen (HAN) has put it on the internet. RTL Nieuws reports this on Tuesday after viewing the data. The hacker demanded a ransom, but the university previously said it would not pay. The person, who uses the pseudonym ‘masterballz’ on…
North Korean hackers breach prominent defector’s accounts in targeted attack
Jeongmin Kim and Nils Weisensee report: In a multilingual social engineering attack, North Korean hackers broke into several accounts of a prominent defector and used their access to send a malicious document to a contact working on DPRK issues, an NK News investigation found. The attackers also used one of the accounts to message journalists at NK News in…
Th: Hacked hospital patients’ data ‘not important’
Online reporters and Sunthorn Kongwarakom report: Officials have rushed to downplay the theft by a hacker of more than 10,000 patients’ personal details from Phetchabun Hospital, describing the information as “not important”. Phetchabun governor Krit Kongmuang was among those who responded to initial reports on social media that the data of 16 million patients of…
Ma: Personal Data of 2 Million Moroccans Leaked Online
Oumaima Latrech reports: Personal data of more than 2 million Moroccans was leaked by hackers, said the French cyber security website Zataz, on September 3. Read more on Morocco World News. Some of the data is reportedly culled from a LinkedIn data set that had been leaked previously, but some appears to possibly be from…