Kong See Hoh reports on a breach involving 300,000 students’ and their parents’ personal information. The Personal Data Protection Department (JPDP) urges parents of students whose personal data were reportedly leaked to demand an explanation from the Education Ministry. JPDP said if they are not happy with the ministry’s explanation, they can lodge complaints with…
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NATO, White House hackers tried to pwn MH17 air disaster probe
Shaun Nichols reports: The Pawn Storm hackers who tried to infiltrate NATO and White House networks have been spotted bothering another sensitive target: the team investigating the downed Malaysia Airlines MH17 flight. Researchers at Trend Micro found suspicious SFTP, VPN, and Outlook Web Access servers configured to collect usernames and passwords from officials probing the aircraft disaster. Read…
Feds charge Ardit Ferizi, a/k/a @Th3Dir3ctorY, with creating hit list of American military, govt employees for ISIS
Was a hack of a U.S. retailer used to develop an ISIL hit list of American military members and government employees? According to a federal complaint unsealed today, it appears it was. From the Department of Justice: Malaysian authorities have detained Kosovo citizen Ardit Ferizi in Malaysia on a U.S. provisional arrest warrant alleging that he provided…
Police probe on 1MDB data theft can’t proceed without Justo, says IGP
Mayuri Mei Lin reports: Malaysia’s top policeman said Bukit Aman is still waiting for their Thai counterparts to respond to its request to record a statement from former PetroSaudi International (PSI) executive Xavier Andre Justo in connection to its investigation on an opposition lawmaker’s alleged offer to buy stolen data on 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB)….
I was offered $2.7m for stolen data: Ex-PetroSaudi employee Xavier Andre Justo on the 1MDB saga
Nirmal Ghosh reports: Swiss national Xavier Andre Justo – who is now in jail in Thailand in connection with trying to blackmail his former employer, PetroSaudi, which is entangled in a huge scandal involving the Malaysian government – has claimed that he was promised US$2 million (S$2.7 million) in exchange for data he stole from…
Hacking Team hacked, all files dumped (Update 2)
As seen on Twitter tonight: Since we have nothing to hide, we’re publishing all our e-mails, files, and source code https://t.co/dCBZAPTtpD https://t.co/Frr1ut01o5 — Hacked Team (@hackingteam) July 6, 2015 Their Twitter profile has also been, er… edited… to “Hacked Team:” @hackingteam Developing ineffective, easy-to-pwn offensive technology to compromise the operations of the worldwide law enforcement…