Neil Hartnell reports: Hackers are trying to extort $30,000 from the Bahamas-based Fidelity Group of Companies, which yesterday moved to reassure clients there had been no widespread leak of personal financial data. Anwer Sunderji, Fidelity’s chairman, confirmed to Tribune Business that a group called ‘Hack for Trump’ had contacted it and demanded a ransom payment…
JP: Minister, others to return wages over pension system data leak
Have we ever seen any American executives return their wages over a data security breach? I can’t recall ever seeing that. And while some commenters on this Kyodo News story think the amount is “chicken feed” and a meaningless gesture, it’s still noteworthy, I think: Japanese welfare minister Yasuhisa Shiozaki and other senior officials doubling as…
Important security notice regarding signing key and distribution of Red Hat Ceph Storage on Ubuntu and CentOS
Posted Red Hat on September 17: Last week, Red Hat investigated an intrusion on the sites of both the Ceph community project (ceph.com) and Inktank (download.inktank.com), which were hosted on a computer system outside of Red Hat infrastructure. download.inktank.com provided releases of the Red Hat Ceph product for Ubuntu and CentOS operating systems. Those product versions…
Anonymous Defaces Local News Weeklies, Threatens Further Action
Bea Karnes reports: Hackers took control of the five news websites of Embarcadero Media Group on Thursday night, according to the media outlet. The websites of Palo Alto Weekly, The Almanac, Mountain View Voice and Pleasanton Weekly were all reportedly attacked at about 10:30 p.m. Thursday. Embarcadero Media took the websites — PaloAltoOnline.com, mv-voice.com, almanacnews.com, pleasantonweekly.com, and danvillesanramon.com — down while…
WI: Former Central student charged with hacking school network
Jon Brines reports: A former Central High School student has been named in a criminal complaint for allegedly hacking into the school district’s network, disrupting it, copying and posting the information online. “We had a student that was hacking into the system and it did slow down the system,” District Administrator Scott Pierce said Friday….
Texas hits leak researcher with Civil Investigative Demand for Systema Software’s leaked data
There’s a bit of an unusual development to an incident that was first reported on DataBreaches.net. As reported previously, The leak of data on AWS from Systema Software impacted numerous individuals who filed insurance claims – primarily in California, Kansas, and Utah. In addition to personal and financial information, the leak also exposed proprietary information such as legal…