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South Korea fined Meta $15.67M for illegally collecting and sharing Facebook users’ information
South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission has fined Meta 21.61 billion won for leaking the personal information about its users without their consent. That’s $15.5 million at today’s conversion rate. Joong Ang Daily reports: The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) said Meta had collected such information about 980,000 users located in Korea via their Facebook […]
Canadian Suspect Arrested Over Snowflake Data Breach and Extortion Attacks
The Hacker News reports a significant arrest: Canadian law enforcement authorities have arrested an individual who is suspected to have conducted a series of hacks stemming from the breach of cloud data warehousing platform Snowflake earlier this year. The individual in question, Alexander “Connor” Moucka (aka Judische and Waifu), was apprehended on October 30, 2024, on the […]
Cybercrime: Arrests in Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate
Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) announced the seizure of two websites and two arrests: In an internationally coordinated operation by the Central Office for Combating Internet Crime ( ZIT ) of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office in Frankfurt am Main, the Hessian State Criminal Police Office ( HLKA ) and the Federal Criminal Police Office ( BKA ) on suspicion of various cybercrime offenses, officers of the HLKA executed […]
Interbank confirms data breach following failed extortion, data leak
Bleeping Computer reports that Interbank has confirmed a data breach after a threat actor started leaking data online. Even though the bank has yet to disclose the exact number of customers whose data was stolen or exposed in the breach, as first spotted by Dark Web Informer, a threat actor who uses the “kzoldyck” handle is […]
Right back atcha: CrowdStrike sues Delta Air Lines
Days after Delta Air Lines sued cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike for $500 million in losses that it attributes to the vendor’s outage, CrowdStrike countersued its customer. CyberDaily reports CrowdStrike’s statement, previously reported by The Times of India, but adds CrowdStrike’s counterclaim that Delta delayed its own recovery by refusing assistance from it and its partner, Microsoft: […]
Free S.A.S., France’s second largest ISP, confirms data breach after data put up for auction
Customers’ personal information has been stolen from one of France’s major ISPs. Free S.A.S. confirmed the breach this past weekend. According to the firm, no passwords, bank card information, or the contents of communications (emails, SMS, or voicemails) were involved, and operations were not affected. But Bitdefender reports that the situation may be more serious […]
RedLine, META infostealer malware operations disrupted by “Operation Magnus”
An announcement by Dutch police in conjunction with their law enforcement partners had cyberdefenders smiling yesterday. Law enforcement had seized the source code and network infrastructure for RedLine and META infostealers. In what has been called “Operation Magnus,” law enforcement warned cybercriminals that they got their data, too. In a “final update” video, law enforcement […]
Dozens under investigation in Italy amid scandal over hacked government databases and illegal dossiers
The Record reports: Four people were arrested in Italy on Friday, with dozens more under investigation, in connection with an alleged conspiracy that links current and former officials in the country’s security services to a private intelligence agency for the purposes of building illegal dossiers. The alleged creation of such dossiers has been a growing […]