Liat Clark reports: At the age of 13, Jake Davis was spending all day, every day on his bedroom computer at his Shetland Islands home. It would be another five years before he discovered an Anonymous chatroom and became part of the hacktivist group, going on to form his own group, Lulzsec. With his new…
UniCredit Says 400,000 Accounts Were Hacked, Exposing Data
Sonia Sirletti and Edward Robinson report: UniCredit SpA said hackers accessed about 400,000 client bank accounts in Italy, taking biographical and loan data in one of the biggest breaches in Europe to date. The breaches occurred in September and October of 2016 and June to July of this year, the bank said on Wednesday in…
Details of a million people across Yorkshire for sale on ‘dark web’
I am reluctant to link to this news report because of the damned stock hoodie image, but…. Ruby Kitchen and Chris Burn report: Across Yorkshire, the personal data of 942,609 people is listed for sale on an underground marketplace, with the highest number being in Sheffield, Barnsley and Rotherham. The illicitly obtained data – from…
Arrested Russian’s wife denies U.S. charge he is global hacking mastermind
Jack Stubbs reports: The wife of an alleged Russian hacker facing extradition from Spain to the United States has told Reuters he is being held in solitary confinement and that he denies the accusation that he masterminded one of the world’s biggest spam networks. Peter Levashov was arrested while on holiday in Barcelona in April,…
Virginia Woman Admits Stealing WVU Medicine University Healthcare Patient Information
The Associated Press has an update on an insider breach previously noted earlier this year: Forty-one-year-old Angela Roberts of Stephenson, Virginia, entered the plea Monday in federal court in Martinsburg. Roberts admitted using someone else’s personal information to commit bank fraud in June 2016 in Berkeley County, West Virginia. She faces up to five years…
Google Groups misconfiguration leads to sensitive data leaks
Zeljka Zorz reports: If your employees are using Google Groups to discuss issues and ideas, you might want to check whether the sharing setting for these groups is set to “Private”. According to RedLock researchers, many companies fail to do so, most probably by accident, and end up exposing messages containing sensitive information on the…