Joseph Cox reports: A hacker has gained access to administrative functions on the porn website Team Skeet and is advertising a database supposedly containing email addresses, plain text passwords, names, and physical and IP addresses for over 237,000 users of the site, as well as the broader porn network, Paper Street Media (PSM). “I want…
UK: Tesco data thief must return from Lithuania for sentencing
From the hey-fella-wanna-come-back-so-we-can-sentence-you-please? dept: A rogue supermarket worker who stole sensitive customer data from his employers is to be called back from Lithuania. Thomas Wengierow was absent from Dundee Sheriff Court on Friday, where he would have faced sentencing for a serious breach of the Data Protection Act. The 47-year-old delved into databases while working…
Romanian National “Guccifer” Extradited to Face Hacking Charges
Marcel Lehel Lazăr, 44, of Arad, Romania, allegedly the hacker “Guccifer,” made his initial appearance today in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. Lazăr had been temporarily surrendered from Romania to face U.S. charges relating to unauthorized access of protected computers, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Dana…
FBI: we don’t advise entities to pay ransom demands
While I was at the recent PHI Protection Network conference, I had an opportunity to speak with Ben Stone, Supervisory Special Agent in the FBI’s Pennsylvania Cyber Squad. One of the questions I put to him was why the FBI had been advising companies to pay ransomware demands. Special Agent Stone told me that that wasn’t…
OH: Private data accidentally exposed by Amherst police personnel
Steve Fogarty reports: Police personnel mistakenly posted online the Social Security numbers of about 30 people during a period when they were learning how to use a new record-management system. They appeared on accident reports that were posted online from the last few weeks of 2015 to the first few weeks of 2016, according to…
BS: Activists To Send ‘Leak’ Complaint To Data Watchdog
Neil Hartnell reports: The Save the Bays activist group yesterday informed the data protection watchdog it will submit a formal complaint over the leaking of its private e-mails, once its own investigation and legal analysis is completed. Ferron Bethell, the attorney acting for the Save the Bays plaintiffs, branded the leak as “one of the…