Although the DDoS attack and extortion demand made on ProtonMail was the first to draw a lot of media attention – possibly because ProtonMail paid the demand – Hushmail, Runbox, Zoho, and VFEMail were also hit with DDoS attacks, seemingly by the hackers who call themselves the Armada Collective. Neomailbox was also hit, and now Iain Thompson reports that FastMail was hit, too:…
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More websites hit by Armada Collective DDoS blackmail attacks, but won’t pay up
Graham Cluley reports: An online criminal gang calling itself the “Armada Collective” has been demanding that online businesses pay thousands of dollars in Bitcoins, or face having their websites brought to their knees by crippling internet attacks. And, as the DDoS experts at Akamai point out, it is online companies who have the most to lose…
Investigation: Burglar Uses Personal Info Sold by Minnesota to Target Victims
Megan Newquist reports: Imagine a burglar stalking his victims and taking pictures of their cars in parking lots, knowing their whereabouts and then breaking into their homes. Eden Prairie police say that’s exactly what 45-year-old David William Pollard was doing, but they didn’t know how until he was arrested leaving a Minnetonka home on April…
OAIC accepts TeleChoice’s response to shipping container data breach
Corinne Reichart reports: TeleChoice has had an enforceable undertaking accepted by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), promising to review its data security practices after the mobile services reseller’s customer information was found in a shipping container on publicly accessible land. The enforceable undertaking [PDF] will see TeleChoice, which resells Telstra’s 3G network, provide its…
UK: Online pharmacy, Pharmacy2U, fined £130,000 for selling customer details
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: An online pharmacy that sold details of more than 20,000 customers to marketing companies has been fined £130,000. Pharmacy 2U offered the customer names and addresses for sale through an online marketing list company. Companies that bought the details included a health supplements company that has been cautioned for misleading advertising…
FBI probe of Clinton e-mail expands to second data company
Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman report: The FBI’s probe into the security of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s e-mail has expanded to include a second private technology company, which said Tuesday it plans to provide the law enforcement agency with data it preserved from Clinton’s account. The additional data, provided by Connecticut-based Datto Inc., could open…