Kennedy Nolen reports: The Macon County Circuit Clerk’s website is working again after being disabled and replaced by a screen saying it had been hacked. The web page showed an image of an anonymous mask with the Iranian flag and read, “Hacked by Iranian Hackers. Hacked by Mamad Warning. We are always closer to you….
Hackers Target Denmark’s Tivoli Park, Steal Information of Up to 1,000 Guests
IANS reports: The Copenhagen-based Tivoli, one of the oldest and most popular amusement parks in Europe, has now joined the unfortunate online “rogues gallery” of major Danish companies whose customer data has been hacked from their websites. Details about the extent of the early August hack into the website of Denmark’s premier tourist destination were…
Western Connecticut Health Network notifying patients that their medical records were in a box that broken open during mailing
Rich Kirby reports: Nuvance Health, which operates the Western Connecticut Health Network, is warning patients that some of their medical records may have been compromised. On Monday, Nuvance released a statement that read in part: “On June 21, 2019, WCHN learned that a box containing medical records that it had sent via the United States…
An anonymous hentai porn site exposed over a million users’ emails
Zack Whittaker reports: A popular hentai porn site that promises anonymity to its 1.1 million users left a user database exposed without a password, allowing anyone to identify users by their email addresses. You might not have heard of Luscious.net unless you’re into hentai and manga porn but it’s one of the most popular websites…
UK hacker-for-hire jailed for role in SIM-swapping attacks, data theft
Charlie Osborne reports: A British teenager has been sentenced to 20 months in prison after offering hacker-for-hire services to cash in on trends including SIM-swapping attacks. The UK’s Norfolk police force said that 19-year-old Elliot Gunton, of Norwich, was sentenced at Norwich Crown Court on Friday after pleading guilty to hacking offenses. money laundering, the…
Police recover chunk of Spotsylvania County money stolen in phishing scam
On Thursday, Scott Shenk reported some good news after a phishing attack in July stole more than $600,000 from Spotsylvania County: On Thursday afternoon, [Virginia] State Police Sgt. Brent Coffey said in a news release that they worked with local police as well as “state law enforcement in other states in order to track down…