Collaborate Disseminate
Barry Collins reports: British Mensa, the society for people with high IQs, failed to properly secure the passwords on its website, prompting a hack on its website that has resulted in the theft of members’ personal data. Eugene Hopkinson, a former dir… Continue reading Mensa Website Hacked After Britain’s Smartest Folk Failed To Secure Passwords
January 21 — SAN DIEGO – Kirill Victorovich Firsov, a Russian citizen, pleaded guilty in federal court today to a cybercrime, admitting that he was the administrator of a website that catered to cyber criminals by virtually selling items such as … Continue reading Kirill Victorovich Firsov, Admin of DEER.IO, Pleads Guilty
The mission of the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES) is to increase public safety through innovative services that reduce crime and incarceration, improve behavioral health, promote recovery and rehabilitation, and creat… Continue reading NY: CASES notifies clients of data security breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The maintainers of OpenWRT, an open-source project that provides free and customizable firmware for home routers, have disclosed a security breach that took place over the weekend. According to a message posted on the project&#… Continue reading OpenWRT reports data breach after hacker gained access to forum admin account
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) today revealed that some of the stolen Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine candidate data was doctored by threat actors before being leaked online with the end goal of undermining the public’s trust … Continue reading Hackers leaked altered Pfizer data to sabotage trust in vaccines
Those of us who frequently check state attorneys general sites are well aware that there are still many consumers and patients who are first being notified of the Blackbaud ransomware incident last year. Ronald McDonald House is well-known in the U.S.,… Continue reading Ronald McDonald House notifying almost 18,000 guests of Blackbaud breach
There is an update to the attack on the European Medicines Agency reported last month. In a statement issued yesterday, EMA writes: The ongoing investigation of the cyberattack on EMA revealed that some of the unlawfully accessed documents related to… Continue reading Cyberattack on European Medicines Agency – update 4
Ax Sharma reports: Today, researchers have responsibly disclosed a security vulnerability by exploiting which they could access over 100,000 private employee records of United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). The data breach stemmed from exposed… Continue reading United Nations data breach exposed over 100k UNEP staff records
WELP reports: The Financial Times was the first to break this story earlier today (29th December 2020. This breach occurred when GetSchooled (getschooled.com), a charity founded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in collaboration with Viacom le… Continue reading Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Charity GetSchooled Breaches 900k Children’s Details
Robert Hart reports: A hacker who claimed to have logged into President Donald Trump’s Twitter account in October will not be punished because he tried to contact American authorities and report the security breach, a Dutch prosecutor announced Wednesd… Continue reading Ethical Hacker Who Claimed To Access Trump’s Twitter Account Won’t Be Criminally Charged by Dutch Prosecutor