Hackers dumped online personal details of more than a million users of infidelity website AshleyMadison.com including that of an Israeli Knesset member, according to reports.
Exposing a new front in cybercrime, U.S. authorities broke up an alleged insider trading ring that relied on computer hackers to pilfer corporate press announcements and then profited by trading on the sensitive information before it became public, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Jerusalem – Two Israelis indicted in the US and facing extradition for allegedly using fake passports and identities and running a “pump and dump” securities fraud scheme that made millions were ordered kept in custody for twenty days by the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court Wednesday, due to fear that they both pose a flight risk.
Law enforcement authorities arrested four people in Israel and Florida and revealed a complex securities fraud scheme tied to the computer hacks of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and other financial institutions.
Ashley Madison, a controversial online social network that gears itself towards married people seeking to have affairs, has been hacked, and the company that owns it is being threatened with exposure of users’ personal information.
A total of 70 people from 17 different countries worldwide were arrested Wednesday in a joint operation between cyber police and the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Hackers swiped Social Security numbers from 21.5 million people — as well as fingerprint records and other information from background check investigations — in the massive breach earlier this year of federal personnel files, the government acknowledged Thursday.
Hackers presumably working on behalf of the Chinese government may have stolen highly sensitive personnel files containing information about drug addictions, sexual proclivities and financial woes of millions of current and former US government workers.
Warsaw – Around 1,400 passengers of the Polish airline LOT were grounded at Warsaw’s Chopin airport on Sunday after hackers attacked the airline ground computer systems used to issue flight plans, the company said.