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A new phishing scam capitalizes on the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to trick Airbnb customers into sharing personal and financial data, Redscan reports. Read more

We see many data breaches on the news but the largest bank in Australia has confirmed that it has lost data of 12 million customers after the magnetic tapes containing a back up of their personal financial history has gone missing. Read more

According to a new Freedom of Information request, over a third of critical infrastructures outages in the UK were down due to cyber-attack over the past year. Corero Network Security received responses from around 200 critical infrastructure organizations including ambulance trusts, fire and rescue services, NHS trusts, water authorities, energy companies and transport bodies. Read

Michael Lamon Williams, 21, was arrested in February on nine counts of computer trespass and 71 counts of computer forgery. When presented with the case last week, the grand jury returned an indictment that charged Williams with seven counts of computer forgery, according to documents filed in Clarke County Superior Court. Read more

Thorco Projects, owned by the Stadil family, was tricked by a hacker last year who had taken over a well-known customer’s email identity. The shipping company had to go to court to get the money back from the bank. Read more

Iranian hackers have attacked user accounts of several Iranian charity workers, academics, dual nationals living abroad as well as tens of political and civil activists in Iran, reported Campaign for Human Rights in Iran on Saturday April 28. Read more

On Thursday evening, the Undergraduate Council website was briefly hacked by a group that calls itself “Iran Cyber Security Group” The website was restored by Friday morning by UC Vice President Nicholas D. Boucher. Read more

Seven of the United Kingdoms largest banks, believed to include Santander, Royal Bank of Scotland and Tesco Bank were forced to shut down their entire system following a cyber-attack last year using a rented software that cost only £11, according to the National Crime Agency. Read more

A group of hackers with links to the North Korean government made use of servers in Thailand and carried out extensive cyber-attack espionage and malware attacks as well. Earlier this week, McAfee the cyber-security firm released new details on a global hacking campaign that was dubbed as Operation GhostSecret. Read more