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$500,000 stolen in Australian super fund data breach
The Guardian reports: Hackers have targeted Australian superannuation funds this week, with a small number of customers losing a combined half a million dollars, and compromising some members’ data, the industry’s peak body says. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) said in a statement on Friday that hackers attempted to breach the cyber defences of […]
TikTok reportedly faces a €500 million fine for sending private user data to China
engadget reports: TikTok will reportedly face a fine of over €500 million ($553 million) for transferring Europeans’ private data to China. Bloomberg said on Thursday that Ireland’s data protection commission, which regulates TikTok owner ByteDance’s EU operations, could dish out the penalty before the end of April. The fine results from a four-year investigation of TikTok’s data handling practices. The […]
DOGE official at justice department ‘bragged about hacking, distributing pirated software’
Reuters reports: A top employee of billionaire Elon Musk who is working in the US justice department previously bragged about hacking and distributing pirated software, according to archived copies of his former websites reviewed by Reuters. Christopher Stanley, a 33-year-old engineer who has worked at Musk’s social media company X and space launch company SpaceX, is […]
Gen. Paul Nakasone says China is now our biggest cyber threat
The Record reports: For nearly six years, Gen. Paul Nakasone led two of the most powerful — and secretive — arms of American national security: the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command. One listens. The other talks back. Under the first Trump administration, Cyber Command got something it never had before: the green light not just to defend, […]
UK sets out new cyber incident reporting requirements for critical infrastructure
The Record reports that in a policy statement published Tuesday, the British government set out what its forthcoming Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will include when it is introduced to parliament later this year: The belated reworking of the country’s cybersecurity regulations comes three years after the previous government had prematurely described those laws as “updated” while […]
Check Point confirms breach, but says it was ‘old’ data and crook made ‘false’ claims
Here’s a reminder that sometimes, criminals lie. Yes, we know you may not really need that reminder, and sometimes criminals tell the truth and organizations lie or wordsmith, but in today’s news, The Register reports: A digital burglar is claiming to have nabbed a trove of “highly sensitive” data from Check Point – something the […]
Hacker Group Anonymous Claims Cyber Offensive Against Turkish Government
Greek City Times reports that he international hacker collective Anonymous has claimed responsibility for a series of cyberattacks targeting Turkish government infrastructure in response to alleged oppressive actions by the government: The group, known for its high-profile digital interventions, declared that more than 100 government websites in Turkey have been taken offline. Additionally, Anonymous claims […]
Anonymous hacker group ‘co-founder’ arrested in Canada, tied to 2021 Texas GOP hack
KXAN in Texas reports: Unsealed federal court records revealed “a security researcher and co-founder of Anonymous,” which is a worldwide hacking group, has been arrested in Canada and accused of allegedly hacking the Texas GOP website (texasgop.org) on Sept. 11, 2021. According to a press release issued by the U.S. Department of Justice, Aubrey Cottle, […]