Jeff Stone reports: Investigators probing the Capital One data breach say they have between 20 and 30 terabytes of data in their possession as they prepare for trial against the alleged hacker, Paige Thompson, according to court documents obtained by CyberScoop. The government now is parsing through millions of individual files, prosecutors said, as well...
Carrie LaFrenz reports: Dutch pharma company Pharming Group NV said it “categorically denies“ any involvement in an alleged data breach by a former CSL staffer. Shares in the listed €698 million ($1.14 billion) biotech company recovered in early trade Thursday after tumbling nearly 12 per cent the day before in Europe, after it was...
Andrei Skvarsky reports: The source of last week’s sensational leak of Sberbank credit card details took “hours” to find out, Russia’s biggest lender said in announcing that the theft had been fully solved. The bank said in a statement that the data, which were put on sale in the black market, had been stolen by a...
Betsy Swan reports: A U.S. intelligence official has been arrested and charged with leaking classified material to two journalists, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday afternoon. The official, Kyle Frese, appeared to be in a romantic relationship with one of the journalists, according to the Justice Department, citing social media pages. Zach Terwilliger, the...
Henry Martin reports: A police receptionist who accessed her force’s confidential database ‘like Facebook’ to help her best friend keep track of her tearaway family has been spared jail with a suspended sentence. Ex-prison warder Jacqueline Wilson, 51, made illicit checks on police investigations after former workmate Jacqueline Goosey, 52, asked her for information...