Catalin Cimpanu reports: A 22-year-old man was sentenced today in London for his involvement in an extortion attempt against Apple, during which the suspect and co-conspirators threatened to mass-hack iCloud accounts and factory reset 250 million iPhones and iPads. The man, Kerem Albayrak, was sentenced today to a two-year suspended jail term, 300 hours of…
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It’s been a strange week, Part 2. An open letter to Twitter.
This was a strange week. It started off great, but then, there I was in a private (DM) conversation on Twitter with Chris Vickery, and alluva sudden, I get a message that my Twitter account was suspended. I refreshed the screen and got the same message. I logged out, logged back in, and was still…
Fla. Courts Require Actual Injury to Demonstrate Standing in Data Breach Cases
Nicole Rekant and Stevan Pardo write: The proliferation of data breach cases in Florida courts has focused on Article III standing. To meet the pleading standard under Article III, a plaintiff must allege sufficient facts to show the injury-in-fact is concrete, particularized, actual, and imminent, not conjectural or hypothetical. An allegation of imminent injury may suffice…
Two incidents involving Texas tax preparers may have put customers at risk of ID theft
Remember when it seemed like every day we were reading about ID theft and tax refund fraud schemes involving rogue employees of tax preparation firms? Yeah, well it’s still a thing. Here’s a story about a former rogue employee at Jackson Hewitt in McKinney, Texas. If you or someone you know may have used that…
Member of Anonymous sentenced to 10 years’ prison over hospital DDoS
Nate Raymond reports that the Martin Gottesfeld has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison and $443,000 in restitution for his DDoS attack on Boston Children’s Hospital and another facility in 2014. Gottesfeld had been convicted on August 1, and had shown no remorse for his actions. According to prosecutors, in late 2013,…
Australian Shipbuilder Hacked, Refuses to Pay Ransom
I thought I posted something on this already, but apparently I didn’t, so if you hadn’t heard already, an Australian shipbuilder who also has contracts with the U.S. Navy was hacked and the hacker made extortion demands that the firm has refused. Jeremy Kirk reports: Australia’s largest defense exporter says it hasn’t responded to an…