Dropbox Probes Possible Hack: Dropbox hired investigators to find out why some of its European users are receiving spam sent to email addresses associated with their accounts. A note on the cloud-storage service’s user forum says the investigators have not yet been able to confirm any unauthorized activity. Many users reported receiving the spam via email addresses used only for Dropbox. The spam, written in German, English and Dutch, advertises gambling websites.
Wall Street IT Recruiting Service Attacked: Hackers published files containing data on tens of thousands of IT professionals taken from ITWallStreet.com, a site that focuses on IT professionals who are seeking Wall Street jobs or who work with Wall Street firms. The data was apparently stolen by a hacker who is a member of a group called TeamGhostShell. An inspection of the published data by Computerworld showed first and last names, mailing addresses, email addresses, usernames, hashed passwords and phone numbers of thousands of people. Many of the thousands of hashed passwords seem to have already been decrypted into their clear text form.
Mother Hacks School System 110 Times to Change Kids’ Grades: Catherine Venusto, a former secretary at Pennsylvania’s Northwestern Lehigh School District, hacked into the school system’s computers and changed her daughter’s grade from an F to an M and her son’s grade from a 98 to a 99. She was charged with three counts each of unlawful use of a computer and computer trespass and released on $30,000 unsecured bail. State police say she admitted changing the grades, and while she agrees her actions were unethical, they apparently aren’t illegal.