Brent Richter reports: West Vancouver is warning thousands of its residents after discovering hackers installed malicious software on the district server used to store personal information collected through its website. District staff first noticed something suspicious on July 31. A forensic search found malware installed on its server used for collecting information from online “webforms.”…
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Seven Charged for Bitcoin Computer Theft
Jelena Ćirić reports: Sindri Þór Stefansson and six others have been charged with the theft of 600 computers equipped for Bitcoin mining, Fréttablaðið reports. Sindri Þór made headlines internationally when he fled from prison earlier this year, where he was being held on suspicion of the robbery. Sindri was later arrested in Amsterdam and brought…
Leaked data from Chinese hotel chain may affect 130 million customers
Nicole Jao reports: Personal data and booking information from 13 hotels operated by Huazhu Hotels Group (华住酒店集团) has reportedly been leaked in what could be the largest data breach in China in five years, according to Chinese cybersecurity media FreeBuf (in Chinese). This morning, a post on a Chinese dark web forum titled “Huazhu-owned hotels…
Hacked: User Data Leaked From Brazilian Crypto Arbitrage Platform, Funds Reportedly Safe
Omar Faridi reports: Brazilian ‘arbitrage’ firm Atlas has reportedly been hacked and the email addresses belonging to its over 264,000 users have been leaked. The company’s users’ phone numbers and the amount of cryptocurrency they have deposited on the platform have also now been shared publicly by the hacker(s). According to a Youtube video posted…
Suspicion of leaking sensitive information from IDF: “Details of hundreds of thousands of soldiers exposed”
Note: this is a Google translation of an article that originally appeared in Hebrew at https://news.walla.co.il/item/3183496: Four people are suspected of setting up a system for trading information about candidates for military service, according to an investigation conducted by the Ministry of Justice’s Privacy Protection Authority. In the course of the investigation, a systematic violation of…
Aadhaar details of over 60k students on APCCE website
Anupama N reports: Vijayawada: The officials of Commissionerate of College Education, Andhra Pradesh, have put the privacy of thousands of students at risk by publishing their Aadhaar card details on the website. In a major goof up by the officials, details of 64,807 students have been put up on the website, for the viewing of…