Monday, July 04, 2022

Not all data breaches are the result of extensive or elaborate hacking.

https://www.databreaches.net/hackers-claim-police-information-stolen-in-chinas-biggest-data-breach/

Hackers claim police information stolen in China’s biggest data breach

The Bharat Express News reports:

Unknown hackers have claimed to have stolen data on up to a billion Chinese residents after hacking into a Shanghai police database, in what industry experts are calling the world’s biggest data breach. cybersecurity in the country’s history.
The person or group claiming the attack has offered to sell more than 23 terabytes of data stolen from the database, including names, addresses, birthplaces, national ID cards, phone numbers and information about criminal cases, according to an anonymous post on an online cybercrime forum. the week. The unidentified hacker demanded 10 bitcoins, worth around $200,000.

Read more of this Bloomberg report at The Bharat Express News

Update: It appears that this leak is real and was due to a developer’s error. Binance has subsequently tweeted:

Apparently, this exploit happened because the gov developer wrote a tech blog on CSDN and accidentally included the credentials.





Can’t wait to see where this one goes…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/04/first-thing-fox-and-friends-face-billion-dollar-us-lawsuits

First Thing: Fox and friends face billion-dollar US lawsuits

  • What does Dominion say Fox Corp did? In the $1.6bn lawsuit, Dominion accuses Fox Corp, and the Murdochs specifically, of allowing Fox News to amplify false claims that the voting company had rigged the election for Joe Biden.

  • Should Fox News be worried? Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, a legal expert, thinks Dominion has a good case. “What’s particularly bad for Fox is [that] Dominion asked them to stop and correct the record in real time, and Fox persisted in spreading misrepresentations about the voting machine company,” she said.





Tools & Techniques.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-computing-for-dummies

Quantum Computing for Dummies

New guide helps beginners run quantum algorithms on IBM's quantum computers over the cloud

The guide appeared online in March in the ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing. The code and implementations accompanying the guide can be found at https://github.com/lanl/quantum_algorithms.



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