Nathan Freed Wessler, deputy director of the ACLU’s Language, Privacy and Technology Project, said: “The personal financial records of ordinary people are being indiscriminately extracted into a huge database. giant, with access given to virtually any police officer who wants it.” WSJ. “This program should never have started, and it should be shut down now.”
A security researcher has discovered a version of the controversial US “no-fly list” on an insecure server operated by CommuteAir, a regional airline based in Ohio. . The list includes more than 1.5 million entries, much larger than previously reported and includes the names of individuals barred from flying to the United States.
CommuteAir confirmed the authenticity of the document to the Daily Dot, the newspaper that first reported on the leaked listing.
According to the Daily Dot, the list features the names of several notable figures, including Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. The Biden administration sent Bout back to Russia in a prisoner exchange for WNBA star Brittney Griner, who returned to the US in December. In data shared with WIRED on Thursday night, there were nearly 30 entries. For those born after 2010.
According to CNNThe US Transportation Security Administration is investigating the incident.
After 8 months of investigation, the US Supreme Court did not find the person who leaked the draft decision to overturn Roe sues Wade, according to a report issued by the court on Thursday. Unprecedented leak politic Last spring came more than a month before the final comments were made and sparked nationwide protests.
During the investigation of the leak, the court interviewed 97 court employees and invited forensic experts to examine call logs, printer logs and fingerprints. According to the report, 80 people besides 9 judges were approached for draft comments.
“No one has confessed to publicly disclosing the document, and no forensic or other evidence provides a basis for identifying any individual as the source of the document,” the report states. “It is not possible to identify any individuals who may have disclosed how the document or draft opinion ended. politic.”
The report did not say whether the judges would be interviewed.
According to PayPal Security incident notification, the attackers gained unauthorized access to the accounts of thousands of users between December 6 and December 8, 2022 using a credential stuffing attack. . Credential stuffing is when a hacker, often using bots, tries to access an account using a leaked list of username and password pairs.
In two days, hackers gained access to the account holder’s full name, date of birth, mailing address, Social Security number and personal tax identification number. According to PayPal, 34,942 of its users were affected by the incident.
Affected users will receive two years of free identity monitoring from Equifax.
