Jordan Fleguel reports: The Durham District School Board (DDSB) says it’s currently recovering from what it calls a ‘cyber-incident’ that has left schools without access to phone or email services as well as emergency contact information. In a letter to parents and guardians on Sunday, the school board said the incident first came to their…
5.4 million Twitter users’ stolen data leaked online — more shared privately
Lawrence Abrams reports: Over 5.4 million Twitter user records containing non-public information stolen using an API vulnerability fixed in January have been shared for free on a hacker forum. Another massive, potentially more significant, data dump of millions of Twitter records has also been disclosed by a security researcher, demonstrating how widely abused this bug…
WhatsApp dismisses report of alleged data leak containing phone numbers of nearly 3 million Hongkongers
Danny Mok reports: WhatsApp on Sunday dismissed a media report claiming that a database containing the mobile phone numbers of nearly 500 million users, including almost 3 million from Hong Kong, was leaked and put up for sale, saying it had found no evidence of a data breach. The article by Cybernews, a research-based online publication,…
In New Hampshire, school technology directors collaborate to protect student data
Eileen O’Grady reports that New Hampshire schools have pooled resources to hire someone who will negotiate with tech and app vendors to make sure that the contracts protect the schools and that contracts aren’t suddenly changed on them, etc. For the past three years, an alliance of school technology directors called the New Hampshire Student…
Russian Hackers Target Dutch LNG Terminal
Alex Kimani reports: Russian hackers have been doing “exploratory research” into the systems of the Dutch LNG terminals, trying to find ways into the systems, American cyber security company Dragos has reported. According to Dragos’ Casey Brooks, hacker groups Xenotime and Kamacite have been poking at the digital systems of Gasunie’s LNG terminal in Eemshaven in Rotterdam. The FBI has…
Iran blames Israel for Fars News Agency hack
The Jewish News Syndicate reports: Iran has blamed foreign countries, including Israel, for a cyber attack on its semi-official Fars News Agency, which is affiliated with the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, AFP reported on Saturday. Fars said in a statement posted to Telegram that its website was disrupted on Friday by a “complex hacking and cyberattack operation, and…