US Blizzard #Offline – WoW #Offline, Diablo 3 #Offline, Starcraft 2 #Offline, Hearthstone #Offline @fbiarelosers @AppleJ4ckxoxo — Lizard Squad (@LizardLands) April 14, 2016 EU Blizzard #Offline – WoW #Offline, Diablo 3 #Offline, Starcraft 2 #Offline, Hearthstone #Offline @fbiarelosers @AppleJ4ckxoxo — Lizard Squad (@LizardLands) April 14, 2016 Atle Williatham reports: … Last night, Blizzard became…
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18 million stolen IDs discovered on server / Criminals in China got illegal access
Yomiuri Shimbun reports: The IDs and passwords of about 18 million Internet users have been found on a computer server set up by a Tokyo company, which was found in November to have allegedly provided its relay server to parties in China for illegal access, the Metropolitan Police Department announced Friday. […] The company in…
PH: Police arrest 27 sextortionists
Francis Wakefield reports: The Philippine National Police-Anti-Cybercrime Group arrested 27 persons allegedly involved in sextortion activities in an operation in Cabanatuan City Tuesday. Senior Supt Guilermo Lorenzo Eleazar, PNP-ACG director, said that the suspects were arrested inside the office of TLS Synergy Group, an online marketing firm in Cabanatuan City. Read more on Tempo.
Update on Camden County Courthouse Security Incident
There’s an update to an incident noted previously on this site involving the Camden County Courthouse in Missouri. RiskBased Security recaps what happened: Unknown persons compromised a courthouse computer hard drive containing e-mails belonging to county officials. Apparently the emails in question were the subject of an information request under Missouri’s Sunshine Law, intended to promote…
Snapchat “just impossibly sorry” after employee payroll data compromised in BEC scam
John Russell reports that a number of Snapchat’s current and former employees had their payroll information stolen after an employee fell for what has become a common attack known as BEC (Business Email Compromise). In BEC, a scammer poses as a corporate executive and sends an email requesting payroll or customer data. “Last Friday, Snapchat’s payroll department was targeted by an…
Pickens County School District computer network overloaded by hackers
A number of school districts are reportedly being hit with DDoS attacks over the past few weeks. Is anyone claiming responsibility on social media or elsewhere? Or does anyone know why these districts are being targeted? If so, please contact me.