Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: A ransomware attack appears to have affected two American chemicals companies, Motherboard has learned. Hexion and Momentive, which make resins, silicones, and other materials, and are controlled by the same investment fund, were hit by the ransomware on March 12, according to a current employee. An internal email obtained by Motherboard and…
UK: Hampshire’s Police Federation comes under cyber attack from hackers
Tom Morton reports: The Police Federation of England and Wales has been hit by a second cyber attack. The organisation, which represents nearly 120,000 officers, said the ‘multi-pronged, sustained’ attack came at about 2.45pm on Thursday. It affected a number of databases as well as the advice website set up to deal with the first attack on March 9. Read more on The…
Class Certification Denied for Data Breach Claim Brought by Bank Against Retailer
Balch & Bingham LLP write: Last week, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama denied Southern Independent Bank’s (“Southern Independent’s”) motion for class certification following a data breach which allegedly affected over 2,000 financial institutions across the country. Southern Independent, a community bank located in south Alabama, brought a class action complaint…
Privacy body probes ‘gaps’ in FOI website interface after data leak
ABS-CBN reports: The National Privacy Commission (NPC) is looking into “gaps” in the interface of the government’s Freedom of Information website that may have caused the leak of data on users who requested documents from the website, one of the agency’s commissioners said Saturday. Columnist Wilson Chua earlier said the ID he used on government…
Man paid hacker to get nude photos from UCF student’s Snapchat account, police say
I missed this one when it first appeared, but it’s worth posting so that parents can once again remind their kids about online safety. Read the full news story on this one as it provides a lot of details about the hacker convincing the victim to give him the login credentials to her account, and…
Sacked IT guy annihilates 23 of his ex-employer’s AWS servers
Lisa Vaas reports: An employee-from-hell has been jailed after he got fired (after a measly four weeks), ripped off a former colleague’s login, steamrolled through his former employer’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts, and torched 23 servers. […] As the Mirror reported during Needham’s January trial, the IT worker was sacked after a month of…