Shoko Oda reports: A leading Japanese matchmaking app was hacked, likely exposing the personal information of more than 1.7 million account holders, in the latest high-profile online attack. Net Marketing Co., which runs the Omiai dating app, said that it found evidence of unauthorized access to its servers in April. Among the data exposed were photos of ID…
Update: Kirill Victorovich Firsov Sentenced to 30 Months for Running DEER.io Site Selling Stolen, Counterfeit and Hacked Accounts
The following is a press release from the government with an update to the case of Kirill Victorovich Firsov. Firsov, the administrator of the DEER.io platform, was arrested on March 7, 2020 and pleaded guilty on January 21 of this year. The DEER.io platform was shut down days after Firsov’s arrest. SAN DIEGO – Kirill…
Indonesian government bans Raid Forums after leak, in talks over data protection bill
Ursula Florene reports: After the alleged leak of personal data of more than 200 million Indonesians, the Communications and Information Ministry has ordered internet service providers to block access to data sharing site Raid Forums. Hackers have used the site to sell information in multiple cases, including those involving e-commerce platforms Tokopedia and Bukalapak. “Raid Forums has…
TPG confirms data on dark web belongs to its customer
John Davidson reports: TPG Telecom has confirmed that data freely available to download on the dark web belongs to one of its customers, following a cyber security breach of TPG’s servers in April. The 5 gigabyte download, available at no charge on at least one dark web site, comes from one of the customers of…
In: Data security breach affects private schools; are lazy government employees to blame?
The Hindu reports: Private schools have complained of a data security breach by officials with the Department of Primary and Secondary Education, while student information was fed into the Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE+) database. “Cluster Resource Persons (CRPs) are tasked with updating data from all the schools in their respective clusters. However,…
UK: Customers hit as ransomware incident blacks out Doncaster insurance firm
We were so busy watching the Colonial Pipeline situation here that we appear to have missed a ransomware incident in the U.K. of note. It started typically enough, with the Doncaster Free Press reporting on May 14 that One Call Insurance had been hit the previous day, and customers were unable to reach the firm….