Eisya A. Eloksari reports: Homegrown e-commerce platform Bukapalak has denied reports that the data of millions of its users were compromised and sold on the dark web, only days after e-commerce unicorn Tokopedia was reported to have faced an internal system breach. The personal data of around 13 million Bukalapak users, including usernames, email addresses…
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Russian Hackers Accessed Emails From Merkel’s Constituency Office: Der Spiegel
Reuters reports: Russia’s GRU military intelligence service appears to have got hold of many emails from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s constituency office in a 2015 hack attack on Germany’s parliament, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday, without citing its sources. Read more on Reuters.
Hacker group selling databases with millions of user credentials busted in Poland and Switzerland
Polish and Swiss law enforcement authorities, supported by Europol and Eurojust, dismantled InfinityBlack, a hacking group involved in distributing stolen user credentials, creating and distributing malware and hacking tools, and fraud. On 29 April 2020, the Polish National Police (Policja) searched six locations in five Polish regions and arrested five individuals believed to be members…
Aarogya Setu: The story of a failure
Elliot Alderson (pseudonym) writes: In order to fight Covid19, the Indian government released a mobile contact tracing application called Aarogya Setu. This application is available on the PlayStore and 90 million Indians already installed it. This application is currently getting a lot of attention in India. In Noida, if people doesn’t have the app installed…
Bukalapak Denies Alleged Data Breach on Dark Web
Tempo.co reports: E-commerce startup Bukalapak dismissed rumors saying that its platform was hacked and so a total of 13 million consumers’ private data were leaked. It ensured consumers’ data are safely maintained. “We are highly aware that cybersecurity risk can threaten anyone. The security of users’ data is our main priority so we always implement various efforts to tighten the security…
Class-action lawsuit dismissed against Laurentian University hacker
Sudbury.com reports: A class-action lawsuit has been dismissed against a former Laurentian University student who pleaded guilty in 2019 to mischief charges after he hacked into the school’s computer system. LU computer science grad Spencer Brydges and the university were named in a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of certain Laurentian students and staff members….