It’s the leak/spy story of the year, I think. But no one has been charged as yet, even though they have a suspect. Dan Goodin reports: Federal authorities have identified a suspect behind last year’s Vault 7 leak of Central Intelligence Agency hacking tools. The trove published to WikiLeaks included exploits and documents for infecting…
Category: Of Note
Member of TheDarkOverlord arrested — reports
There are reports in the news this morning that a member of TheDarkOverlord has been arrested by Serbian police. These are translations via Google, and I do not see any report yet naming the arrestee or a photo, but… Serbian police arrested SS (1980) from Belgrade suspected of being one of the hackers from the…
Attention PGP Users: New Vulnerabilities Require You To Take Action Now
Danny O’Brien and Gennie Gebhart write: A group of European security researchers have released a warningabout a set of vulnerabilities affecting users of PGP and S/MIME. EFF has been in communication with the research team, and can confirm that these vulnerabilities pose an immediate risk to those using these tools for email communication, including the…
Ph: Privacy commission orders Jollibee to suspend online delivery services over data breach
Ted Cordero reports: The National Privacy Commission (NPC) on Tuesday ordered fast-food giant Jollibee Foods Corp. to suspend its online delivery platform indefinitely due to a data breach reported by the company in December last year. The NPC ordered Jollibee to suspend the operations jollibeedelivery.com and all other data processing open to the public through…
Remember your baby’s newborn pictures? They may still be online.
UPDATED April 23, 2021: Apparently people find this news article in Google search results and then contact me via email or phone to ask about getting their newborn’s photos. This is a news article written in 2018. Neither I nor DataBreaches.net have your baby’s photos. Do not call me or email about them as I…
Equifax lets identity thieves raid “frozen” credit reports through its shady, obscure secondary credit bureau
Remember all that advice that I and Brian Krebs tend to give consumers about putting “freezes” on your credit reports instead of “alerts?” The freezes are supposed to prevent entities from opening up any new lines of credit or accounts in your name. They are supposed to prevent problems instead of just detecting problems after…