UK Legal Aid Agency Hit by Cyberattack, Sensitive Data Stolen

The UK Legal Aid Agency has suffered a major cyberattack, with “significant” sensitive data, including criminal records, stolen.…...

Criminal record database of millions of Americans dumped online

A cybercriminal going by the names of EquationCorp and USDoD has released an enormous database containing the criminal records of millions of Americans. The database is said to contain 70 million rows of data. Post by USDoD on a breach forum The leaked database is said to include full names, date...

57,000 Kaspersky Fan Club Forum User Data Leaked in Hosting Breach

By Waqas Hacker group RGB claims responsibility for breaching Kaspersky's fan club and the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, leaking over 100,000 criminal records. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 57,000 Kaspersky Fan Club Forum User Data Leaked in Hosting Bre...

UK Criminal Records Office Crippled by Potential Ransomware Attack

By Waqas The Criminal Records Office ACRO of the United Kingdom has acknowledged the cyberattack but did not confirm whether it was a ransomware attack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: UK Criminal Records Office Crippled by Potential Ransomware Attack...

californiacriminalrecords.org Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2559887

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

FBI Wants Biometric Database Exempt From Privacy Rules

Civil liberties and privacy groups are petitioning the U.S. government for more time to fight the FBI’s request to exempt itself from lawsuits related to its warehouse of an estimated 100 million biometric records if it’s found in violation of the federal Privacy Act of 1974. At issue is the...

ID Theft Victims Spending Less on Cleanup

Nearly one-third of all identity theft victims say they are unable to completely clear up damaged credit or criminal records in the aftermath of their identities being abused. But the good news is they’re spending much less time and money cleaning up the fraud perpetrated against them in their...