Luke Parker reports: The largest bitcoin and ether exchange in South Korea by volume, Bithumb, was recently hacked. Monetary losses from compromised accounts have started to surface, and are quickly reaching into the billions of won. […] Hackers succeeded in grabbing the personal information of 31,800 Bithumb website users, including their names, mobile phone numbers…
Category: Of Note
Ohio police, fire dispatch center hacked (UPDATED)
UPDATE of July 6: Wooster’s Law Director clarified for me that the data that were compromised came from police incident reports, which includes names and social security numbers and/or driver’s license numbers. The dispatch system is not a HIPAA-covered entity. According to Ms Applebaum, this incident was not related to WannaCry and the city has “measures in…
He left the company, but didn’t go away. Now, he’s going away for seven years.
David J. Neal reports on the sentencing of Jonathan Eubanks: A former Davie resident got seven years in federal prison for bedeviling Navarro Security Group with computer attacks after he resigned from the company. Attacks such as rerouting visitors to the company website to another security firms site. Or, deleting all the files on a company…
If you have health insurance anywhere, or are a Medicare patient in Australia, your data are up for sale on the darknet
Paul Farrell reports: A darknet trader is illegally selling the Medicare patient details of any Australian on request by “exploiting a vulnerability” in a government system, raising concerns that a health agency may be seriously compromised. An investigation by Guardian Australia can reveal that a darknet vendor on a popular auction site for illegal products…
SQL Injection Vulnerability in WP Statistics
If you’re using the WordPress plugin WP Statistics, you might want to stop and immediately read John Castro’s post, SQL Injection Vulnerability in WP Statistics.
‘Crackas’ Hacker Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison
AP reports: A North Carolina man has been sentenced to two years in prison in connection with a series of computer hacks that targeted former CIA Director John Brennan and other government officials. Twenty-three-year-old Andrew Otto Boggs of North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, known online as “INCURSIO,” pleaded guilty earlier this year to unauthorized computer access…