InfoSec News Nuggets 08/30/2023

More UK cops' names and photos exposed in supplier breach  London's Metropolitan Police has said a third-party data breach exposed staff and officers' names, ranks, photos, vetting levels, and salary information. In a statement posted on the cops' website, the force said miscreants broke into a supplier's IT system, and used that unauthorized access to steal personnel information. The supplier did not, however, store police addresses, phone numbers or financial account details so it appears…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 06/14/2021

How Hackers Used Slack to Break into EA Games The group of hackers who stole a wealth of data from game publishing giant Electronic Arts broke into the company in part by tricking an employee over Slack to provide a login token, Motherboard has learned. The group stole the source code for FIFA 21 and related matchmaking tools, as well as the source code for the Frostbite engine that powers games like Battlefield and other internal game…
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