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Reports emerged earlier this week that the Minneapolis police department had been breached by hacktivist group Anonymous. Security expert Troy Hunt debunked the reports, however.
"Don't spread disinformation and right now, all signs point to just that - the alleged Minneapolis Police Department 'breach' is fake," he wrote, in an analysis posted on Monday, adding that the data is likely not from the MPD at all, but rather a collection of widely available credentials from earlier breaches, and possibly some made-up combinations, that have been assembled into a new database for the purpose of perpetrating this hoax. Passwords like the all-lowercase "Linkedin"; "Le"; PIN-like passwords like "1603"; and the notoriously insecure "Password," "Qwerty" and "123456" are all represented.
The leader of far-right political group Britain First has been handed a judicial slap on the wrist after refusing to give his phone PIN to police at Heathrow Airport. He told police the party was "Not liberal like the Lib Dems in the UK, they're nationalist and right wing like Le Pen and Trump".
The leader of far-right political group Britain First has been handed a judicial slap on the wrist after refusing to give his phone PIN to police at Heathrow Airport. He told police the party was "Not liberal like the Lib Dems in the UK, they're nationalist and right wing like Le Pen and Trump".
In January last year, the hacker tried to sell the massive 87-gigabyte database labeled as "The largest array of stolen data in history," which, according to security experts, was just a fraction of the stolen data Sanix collected. According to the authorities, Sanix had at least 6 more similar databases of stolen and broken passwords, totaling in terabytes in size, which also included billions of phone numbers, payment card details, and Social Security numbers.
In January last year, the hacker tried to sell the massive 87-gigabyte database labeled as "The largest array of stolen data in history," which, according to security experts, was just a fraction of the stolen data Sanix collected. According to the authorities, Sanix had at least 6 more similar databases of stolen and broken passwords, totaling in terabytes in size, which also included billions of phone numbers, payment card details, and Social Security numbers.
Five alleged members of hacking group InfinityBlack got some unexpected visitors last week when Polish law enforcement arrested them. InfinityBlack was a hacking group that specialised in stealing and distributing sets of online credentials known as combos, especially for loyalty rewards points accounts.
Dutch police on Friday arrested a 19-year-old man from Breda suspected of launching a distributed denial of service attack on a government website. Given the current coronavirus crisis, when emergency ordinances and regulations are made accessible through this site, the Dutch police notes, keeping it accessible is vital.
The US Department of Justice announced on Thursday that Larry Harmon, 36, of Akron, Ohio, has been indicted on three counts of allegedly running a Bitcoin mixer service called Helix from 2014 to 2017. Harmon's Helix bitcoin mixer allegedly moved at least 354,468 bitcoin on behalf of customers: a sum that was valued at over $300 million at the time of the transactions and which is now worth about USD $3.6 billion.
The UK's National Crime Agency has publicly distanced itself from a poster urging parents to call police if their child has installed Kali Linux, Tor or - brace yourself - Discord. Should your child install Kali Linux, virtual machines or internet privacy tool Tor, West Midlands Police wants to know immediately.