Franz Wild, Ed Siddons, and Simon Lock report: A multimillion-pound high court case between an authoritarian Gulf emirate and an Iranian-American businessman has revealed how hacked evidence is being used by leading law firms to advance their clients’ claims. The case has included allegations that a former Metropolitan Police officer hired Indian hackers and that…
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A Police App Exposed Secret Details About Raids and Suspects
Dhruv Mehrotra reports: Last September, law enforcement agents from five counties in Southern California coordinated an operation to investigate, raid, and arrest more than 600 suspected sex offenders. The mission, Operation Protect the Innocent, was one of the largest such raids in years, involving over 64 agencies. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, it was coordinated…
Update about an alleged incident regarding Twitter user data being sold online
From Twitter, today: …. In response to recent media reports of Twitter users’ data being sold online, we conducted a thorough investigation and there is no evidence that data recently being sold was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability of Twitter systems. We also want to share an update about an incident that took place earlier this year,…
What Twitter’s 200 million email leak really means
Lily Hay Newman reports: After reports at the end of 2022 that hackers were selling data stolen from 400 million Twitter users, researchers now say that a widely circulated trove of email addresses linked to about 200 million users is likely a refined version of the larger trove with duplicate entries removed. The social network…
FCC Proposes to Modernize Data Breach Rules
Commission Will Seek Comment on Proposed Consumer and Law Enforcement Notification Requirements for CPNI Leaks — WASHINGTON, January 6, 2023—The Federal Communications Commission today launched a proceeding to strengthen the Commission’s rules for notifying customers and federal law enforcement of breaches of customer proprietary network information (CPNI). The Commission will look to better align its…
Man who got into hacking while still in school explains what he did in Anonymous
Ali Condon reports: A man who first got into computer hacking when he was still in school has explained what it was like to work with infamous hacktivist group Anonymous. Mustafa Al-Bassam, who was once a member of Anonymous and is one of the founders of LulzSec, got his first taste for computer programming when he was just…