Computer Forensic

Digital Forensics: UPDATE: Company confirms hack, employee data breached. Image credit: The Pokémon Company UPDATE 11.44am UK: Game Freak has acknowledged it was hacked in August, in a Japanese-language statement posted to its website, dated 10th October. The company apologised that personal information about its employees was obtained via “unauthorised ...

Digital Forensics: UPDATE: Game Freak has issued a statement confirming the company suffered a data breach in August 2024. The company said its server was illegally accessed, with 2,606 cases of current, former, and contract employee names and email addresses accessed. The Japanese language statement carries a date of October ...

Digital Forensics: Image: The Pokémon Company Updated [Sun 13th Oct, 2024 15:55 BST]: Game Freak has acknowledged the leak in an official statement. A third-party apparently gained unauthorised access to a company server earlier this year – accessing personal information including names and email addresses of current and former employees. ...

Digital Forensics: Elon Musk’s social media platform worked with former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign to take down links to hacked documents, The New York Times reported Friday. Suggested Reading California’s new $20 minimum wage for fast food workers didn’t cost jobs, study says Suggested Reading The Times, citing two ...

Digital Forensics: Robot vacuums across the country were hacked in the space of several days, according to reporting by ABC News. This allowed the attackers to not only control the robovacs, but use their speakers to hurl racial slurs and abusive comments at anyone nearby. All of the affected robots ...

Digital Forensics: A report by The New York Times on Elon Musk’s fervent support for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign includes a bombshell detail that undermines right-wingers’ conspiratorial claims about Hunter Biden and anti-conservative bias on social media. Conservatives have been kvetching for years about so-called collusion by the federal government ...

Digital Forensics: Updates added at end of the article. Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records. News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afternoon after visitors to archive.org began ...

Digital Forensics: By Mark Hunter 1 day agoMon Oct 07 2024 07:34:04 Reading Time: < 1 minute The LEGO website was briefly hacked on Friday to display a fake cryptocurrency scam, “LEGO Coin.” The phishing scheme urged users to buy the fraudulent token in exchange for Ethereum, but the banner [...]

Digital Forensics: Home and small business security company ADT disclosed it suffered a breach after threat actors gained access to its systems using stolen credentials and exfiltrated employee account data. ADT is a public American company that specializes in security and smart home solutions for residential and small business customers. The ...