William Turton reports that “Cracka” has been arrested: A 15-year-old boy was arrested in the East Midlands, England, on Tuesday, for allegedly hacking the personal email account of the CIA director and releasing the personal information of 11,000 government agents. The hacker known as “cracka” was arrested on multiple counts of suspicion of conspiracy to commit unauthorized…
Dragon Nest MMO loses two years of player data
Matthew Humphries writes: Massively-multiplayer online games are one of the most difficult games to get right and keep running. Each game needs enough players to cover the costs of renting the servers required to run it, while at the same time there’s a constant demand for new content while keeping the whole system safe and…
GCHQ Official Twitter Suspended
Couple of weeks ago i started on a small side project as a way of playing with Ruby On Rails and as a result i came up with a nice tool that utilizes the twitter API and checks for suspended accounts in a ethical non-intrusive way. So far most of the finds have been porn…
D.C. accidentally uploads private data of 12,000 students
Perry Stein reports: The private information of about 12,000 D.C. Public Schools students was accidently uploaded to a publicly accessible website, the District’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education announced Thursday in an internal memo. The information, which was online for several hours Tuesday, has been taken down. Officials said someone in the office…
Police: Harrison teacher’s website hacked
Joseph Paul reports: A Harrison High School student is suspected of hacking a teacher’s website and posting offensive content, officials said Wednesday. Tippecanoe School Corp. administrators discovered Monday night that the teacher’s classroom page — located within Harrison’s website — had been accessed without authorization, spokesperson Sue Scott said. The suspect appears to have “obtained the teacher’s password,” Scott said, posted “inappropriate and offensive…
Hellgate High data breach included records of former, deceased students
There’s yet another update to the Hellgate High School breach that was first disclosed in December. Chelsea Davis reports that alumni, former students, transfers and even deceased students also were included in December’s data breach. Read more on The Missoulian.