It was only last week that Experian released a white paper on what it sees as data breach risks for 2017. Perhaps ironically, then, it was only days later when a dark web vendor claimed to have Experian’s database for sale. HackRead reported on “DoubleFlag’s” listing: The hacker claims he has access to the Experian database which contains…
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Russian central bank says bank account hacked in $45 million cyber heist
Andrei Ostroukh reports Hackers broke into accounts at the Russian central bank earlier this year by faking a client’s credentials and attempted to steal $45 million, the bank said in a report released on Friday. The bank said it managed to recover some of that amount—$26 million—but it did not say if that meant the…
‘Avalanche’ network dismantled in international cyber operation
From Europol, today: On 30 November 2016, after more than four years of investigation, the Public Prosecutor’s Office Verden and the Lüneburg Police (Germany) in close cooperation with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the Department of Justice and the FBI, Europol, Eurojust and global partners, dismantled an international criminal infrastructure platform known as…
Court Authorizes Service of John Doe Summons Seeking the Identities of U.S. Taxpayers Who Have Used Virtual Currency
The government’s press release on an issue mentioned previously: a broad warrant for records on everyone who used Coinbase. The government appears to be going on a fishing expedition with court authorization. Oh well, the Fourth Amendment had a good run, I guess. A federal court in the Northern District of California entered an order today authorizing the…
Check Point reveals 1,000,000 Gmail accounts were hacked
Arutz Sheva reports: Security researchers at Israeli software security company Check Point revealed Wednesday that a fresh Android security breach has resulted in more than one million Google accounts being hacked, accordng to a Channel 2 report. According to the company’s researchers, attackers were able to gain access to the personal information of over one million GMAIL…
Barrett Brown leaves prison still chained to a crime he didn’t commit
Dell Cameron reports: Dallas-based journalist Barrett Brown walked free from prison on Tuesday morning after spending more than four years behind bars. The 35-year-old cause célèbre, convicted in January 2015 after spending more than two years in pretrial confinement, faces a laundry list of post-release restrictions and obligations, including drug treatment, mental health evaluations, and computer monitoring. Read…