TalkTalk Hack Investigation Leads to Arrest of Teenager
In light of the recent TalkTalk hack, a teenage boy hailing from Northern Ireland has been arrested. Official charges against this person include offences under the Computer Misuse Act., and the arrest comes after a joint operation between the Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit and the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Ever since news broke about the TalkTalk attack, affected customers have been worrying how much of their personal information has been breached. The UK ISP admitted not all of the stored data was encrypted, and even credit card information could have been obtained as a....
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Whenever a major company or service provider gets hacked, one would expect them to step up their security game by quite a margin. Just a few weeks ago, British ISP TalkTalk was hacked, and a fair amount of customer data was obtained illegally. But that isn’t the of the line for worrying customers, as researchers have unveiled additional vulnerabilities that put customer information at risk. When the TalkTalk hack occurred a few weeks ago, a total of 157,000 customers were affected. Among the information retrieved were names, addresses, phone numbers, and even dates of birth. Up until this....
Over the past few weeks, British Internet Service Provider TalkTalk has been the center of media attention. Not only did the company suffer from a hacking attempt on their customer database, but they also failed to encrypt a lot of sensitive information. To make matters even worse, the company is now denying thousands of victims any form of compensation. Even though TalkTalk has apologised to the customers who suffered from the hacking attack a while ago, those words have fallen on deaf ears for most people. With over 100,000 customers suffering from the hack, a lot of sensitive....
Theft of credit card information is nothing new under the sun, as these types of data breaches occur on a regular basis in this day and age. British provider TalkTalk is the latest company on a growing list of companies who suffered an attack by hackers. Customer data has, most likely, been obtained, which could include credit card details. Popular systems are always a high-value target for hackers, and they will stop at nothing to find and exploit security weaknesses. That being said, there is a major difference between hacking a website and obtaining sensitive customer data. In the case....
A hacker targeting Roger Ver has given up his attempts to access the angel investor's accounts after a 37.6 BTC bounty was issued for his arrest. In a Facebook post earlier this morning, Ver said he was seeking information about the hacker "who is trying to steal all my stuff at the moment". The bounty is currently worth around $20,000. He also revealed the hacker is using the Skype username 'nitrous'. He posted a similar message on Twitter: 37.6 BTC reward for information that leads to the arrest of the hacker that is trying to hack all my stuff at the moment. details to come! - Roger Ver....
An Israeli teenager, alleged to have made over 100 bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers and day schools in the United States is now accused of making millions in bitcoin through cybercrime on the dark web. A Jewish teenager with both American and Israeli citizenship was apprehended last month by Israeli authorities in Marc in Ashkelon, a coastal city in the south of Israel. Some reports identify him as Michael Kaydar, a 19-year-old who is accused of making over 100 hoax bomb threat calls to Jewish Community Centers and Jewish day schools across 33 states since January. He is also....