A hacker convicted of stealing and selling two unreleased Ed Sheeran songs
Adrian Kwiatkowski, a 23-year-old hacker from Ipswich, UK, stole two unreleased songs by singer Ed Sheeran and sold Ed Sheeran on the dark web for £131,000 worth of cryptocurrency, and 12 songs by American rapper Lil Uzi Vert.
British prosecutors said Kwiatkowski obtained the unreleased tracks by hacking into their cloud accounts, without specifying which cloud services those were. Kwiatkowski pleaded guilty to a total of 19 charges, including copyright infringement and possession of the criminal property, and was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
A programmer deletes code and quit the job after having quarrels with colleagues
Beijing Haidian Court announced a case in which the programmers deleted the source code of their own programming and resigned due to a conflict with the team leader.
The court held that the programmer’s act of deleting the work results without the consent of the company before resignation actually affected the production and operation order of the company and caused economic losses to the company, and ordered him to compensate the company for economic losses of $8570.
Prominent British car dealer refuses to pay 60 million ransom
The British car dealer group Pendragon suffered a cyber attack by the LockBit ransomware group, some data was stolen, and it received a ransom payment notice of up to $60 million. The company spokesman said it was adamant about not paying the attackers, stressing that the company’s IT team responded immediately after the attack. The findings showed that hackers stole only 5% of the data in the database.
Iranian nuclear power plant operator hacked
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran’s Public Relations and Information Department announced that the e-mail system of the company operating the Bushehr nuclear power plant had been hacked.
The company’s information technology department has taken necessary preventive measures in the shortest possible time and has initially reported to the relevant departments. The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said the content of the emails contained some technical information as well as information from daily exchanges and had no value other than to attract public attention.
Australian defense communications platform was hit by ransomware hackers
The servers of ForceNet, the communications platform that runs the country’s Ministry of Defence website, have been hacked, Australian Defence Ministry official Matt Chissothwaite said. The government has notified all Department of Defense personnel and advised them to change their passwords.
The ABC said private information of some service members, including dates of birth and enlistment details, was likely leaked. The ransomware used by hackers usually encrypts the victim’s data and only decrypts it after the hacker receives the ransom.
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