Alys Keys reports: Former Buzzfeed journalist Anne Helen Petersen had been putting the final touches on the latest episode of her podcast last month when an email landed in her inbox. It warned of suspicious activity on her Substack account and said her ability to send emails would be frozen until she confirmed she wasn’t a bot….
Kr: Investigation shows KT concealed malware infections, security failures leading to hacking breach
Chang Dong-woo reports: KT Corp., South Korea’s second-largest mobile carrier, was found to have concealed critical malware infections and failed to report the security breaches that led to a recent hacking and data theft incident, a government-led investigation revealed Thursday. The joint government-private investigation team, which is examining KT’s recent cyberattack linked to illegal micro…
Hackers defraud multiple lawmakers, a Pakistan Senate committee told
MM News reports: In a shocking revelation, the Senate Standing Committee on Interior was told that hackers have defrauded several members of Parliament of hundreds of thousands of rupees through online scams. During the committee meeting, chaired by Senator Faisal Saleem, it was disclosed that hackers managed to deceive various parliamentarians, extracting large sums of…
Hack exposes Kansas City, Kansas, Police’s secret officer misconduct list
Peggy Lowe and Dhruv Mehrotra report: A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arrest. In 2011, after months of complaints from residents about the department’s SWAT team — broken TVs, missing cash, lost…
Swedish IT Company Data Breach Exposes Personal Details of 1.5 Million Users
Divya reports: Swedish authorities have launched formal investigations into a significant data breach affecting Miljödata, a prominent IT company whose security lapse exposed the personal information of over 1.5 million individuals. The Swedish Data Protection Authority (IMY) initiated the probe following the August attack, which resulted in sensitive data being published on the Darknet and affecting multiple…
Something Old and Something New: The False Claims Act and Cybersecurity
Elizabeth F. Greene and Kristen Dupard pf Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP write: The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently obtained several cybersecurity-related False Claims Act (FCA) settlements totaling more than $50 million dollars. Collectively, these settlements reflect a clear message: Cybersecurity is an enforcement priority for the second Trump administration, and any organization that contracts…