FatFace paid £1.45m ransom to cyber hackers behind January attack

FatFace paid £1.45m ransom to cyber hackers who put customer and employee details at risk in attack triggered by a dodgy email FatFace told shoppers and staff last week their details had been hacked  At-risk information included names, addresses, bank details and NI numbers The attack took place on 17 January and used ransomware to … Read more

Channel Nine calls in cyber detectives to investigate online attack

Channel Nine calls in cyber detectives to investigate the largest online attack of a media company in Australia’s history By Aap Published: 00:43 BST, 30 March 2021 | Updated: 00:56 BST, 30 March 2021  The Nine Network has suffered what it describes as the largest cyber attack on a media company in Australia’s history, which … Read more

Kyle and Jackie O producer fears Russia has launched a cyber attack on KIIS FM

The moment a terrified Kyle and Jackie O producer fears Russia has launched a cyber attack on KIIS FM live on air… before the truth is revealed By Nicole Douglas For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:12 BST, 29 March 2021 | Updated: 05:12 BST, 29 March 2021 The Kyle and Jackie O Show was thrown … Read more

Today host Karl Stefanovic laughs off cyber attack on Channel Nine

In Soviet Russia, Today show wakes up with you! Karl Stefanovic laughs off cyber attack on Channel Nine as rumours swirl it was retaliation for Liz Hayes’ exposé about Vladimir Putin’ By Jo Scrimshire For Daily Mail Australia Published: 21:31 BST, 28 March 2021 | Updated: 21:31 BST, 28 March 2021 Today anchor Karl Stefanovic … Read more

Channel Nine forced to shut down all live programming due to ‘cyber attack’ by ‘Russian hackers’  

Channel Nine was forced to cancel much of its live programming on Sunday due to an ‘unprecedented cyber attack’.  TV Blackbox reports that the technical glitches are believed by security experts to have been orchestrated by ‘Russian hackers’ who sought to stop Monday’s episode of Under Investigation, which focuses on Russian president Vladimir Putin, from going to air.   … Read more

FatFace customers’ details at risk after clothing chain hit by cyber criminals

FatFace customer details at risk as clothing chain is hit by ‘sophisticated criminal attack’ which leaves shoppers open to identity theft Customers were told it had discovered suspicious activity on 17 January It send an email out saying names and addresses may have been put at risk  It was sent to one shopper who bought … Read more

First Indian female president of Oxford student union was subject to ‘racist cyber lynching’

The first Indian female president of Oxford University’s students’ union has said she was subjected to a racist ‘cyber lynching’ before she was forced to resign. Rashmi Samant, 22, stepped down within days of her election in February after old social media posts were unearthed. In one post, she had captioned a photo of herself … Read more

Boris Johnson will set up a cyber force in North of England to combat threats by China and Russia

Boris Johnson will set up a cyber force in the North of England to combat threats posed by China and Russia – and it will also tackle the North-South divide Prime Minister tackling the North-South divide and increasing nation’s security Review of country’s future defence requirements is being launched on Tuesday  Headquarters of the National … Read more

TOM LEONARD: It’s terrifying but cyber attack on Florida water treatment plant is far from a one-off

Last Friday at 8am, a computer operator at a water treatment plant in Florida noticed the cursor moving across his screen as if being controlled by an invisible hand. The operator assumed that, as often happened at the plant, which provides drinking water to the small city of Oldsmar (population 14,600), it was just his … Read more

British cyber gang ‘stole large amounts from US sports and music stars and posed as them online’ 

British cyber gang ‘stole large amounts from US sports and music stars and posed as them online after accessing their phones and taking over their accounts’ British gang stole money, bitcoin and personal information from US celebrities It also hacked into the social media accounts of the victims to post content Eight suspects, between 18 … Read more