PSE reports: A Nottinghamshire borough council has been investigated by police after it was potentially the site of a mass breach of data protection laws. Police were notified in September after a confidential email sent to Broxtowe Borough Council which made allegations about a member of staff’s conduct was sent to all 730 staff. Police…
Ransomware Result: Free Ticket to Ride in San Francisco
Mathew J. Schwartz reports: “You Hacked, ALL Data Encrypted.” That was part of a message that reportedly appeared on thousands of Windows systems used by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, better known as Muni, in recent days, after they were locked by ransomware and 100 bitcoins – currently worth $73,000 – demanded in exchange for a…
Blackmailers target customers of hacked Liechtenstein bank: paper
John Miller and Farah Master report: Customers of a Chinese-owned Liechtenstein bank are being told by unknown blackmailers they must pay a portion of their savings or face having account details sent to finance authorities and the media, a German newspaper reported on Sunday. Those targeted have accounts at Valartis Bank Liechtenstein, located in the…
Fancy Bears hack again with attack on senior anti-doping officials
Sean Ingle reports: The cyber-espionage group Fancy Bears, which made headlines worldwide when it published the private medical certificates of athletes including Bradley Wiggins, Serena Williams and Simone Biles, has struck again by hacking into the confidential emails of senior anti-doping officials. The emails – which have been taken in separate attacks on the World…
UK: Personal details and criminal records of hundreds of ex-Bolton at Home residents leaked after being left in cabinet sold for £10
How is this still happening in 2016? If you read the full article, you’ll find there was a lot of sensitive information in the folders left in the cabinet. Liam Thorpe reports: The personal details, health records and criminal histories of hundreds of vulnerable people have been left in a filing cabinet which was sold for…
Shad0wS3C Hacker Breaches Mexican Government Website
Bogdan Popa reports: Shad0wS3C leader Gh0s7 has managed to hack another website, this time belonging to Instituto de la Función Registral del Estado México (also known as IFREM). Gh0s7 told us that he discovered a vulnerability in their server that allowed him to get the main database file, which includes sensitive information such user data,…