http://news.softpedia.com Softpedia News - Data Leaks Softpedia News en-us 2001 - 2013 Softpedia. All rights reserved. Sun, 19 May 2013 17:28:26 GMT Sun, 19 May 2013 17:28:26 GMT News http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 10 http://news.softpedia.com/base_img/softpedia_logo.gif http://news.softpedia.com http://news.softpedia.com/news/University-of-Florida-Warns-Over-14-000-Individuals-of-Possible-Identity-Theft-342921.shtml The University of Florida is notifying 14,339 patients of the UF & Shands Family Medicine at Main medical clinic that their details might have been sold to an identity theft ring by one of the clinic’s employees.

“We share our patients’ frustration regarding this situation and regret th... (read more)]]> Thu, 4 Apr 2013 11:17:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/University-of-Florida-Warns-Over-14-000-Individuals-of-Possible-Identity-Theft-342921.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/University-of-Florida-Warns-Over-14-000-Individuals-of-Possible-Identity-Theft-342921.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Website-Responsible-for-Leaking-Details-of-Celebrities-Restored-342807.shtml Last month, we learned of Exposed.su, a website that listed the personal and financial details of several public figures. After authorities launched an investigation, the site went offline, but now it has been resurrected on a new domain.

Currently, the website – which has been moved to a Reunion Island domain &n... (read more)]]> Thu, 4 Apr 2013 07:32:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Website-Responsible-for-Leaking-Details-of-Celebrities-Restored-342807.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Website-Responsible-for-Leaking-Details-of-Celebrities-Restored-342807.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Stole-Details-of-Officials-and-Celebrities-from-Credit-Reporting-Companies-336687.shtml By now, everyone is aware of the site called “Exposed,” that keeps publishing the personal information, including social security numbers, of various celebrities, law enforcement officials and government officials.

According to Ars Technica, the hackers who run the site might have stolen... (read more)]]> Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:50:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Stole-Details-of-Officials-and-Celebrities-from-Credit-Reporting-Companies-336687.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Stole-Details-of-Officials-and-Celebrities-from-Credit-Reporting-Companies-336687.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Bank-of-America-Is-Spying-on-Us-and-the-Occupy-Movement-332484.shtml Anonymous hackers accuse Bank of America of paying contractors to spy on them and the Occupy movement. After doing some detective work, the hacktivists claim to have found a large amount of data on Anonymous collected by a BoA sub-contractor called TEKSystems.

They say they’ve found evidence that BoA has been m... (read more)]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:04:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Bank-of-America-Is-Spying-on-Us-and-the-Occupy-Movement-332484.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Bank-of-America-Is-Spying-on-Us-and-the-Occupy-Movement-332484.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Hacker-Leaks-VMware-ESX-Source-Code-304276.shtml An Anonymous-affiliated hacker called STUN has leaked a number of files apparently containing the source code of some WMware ESX products.

“Good evening, Security World. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine - the security of the familiar, specially... (read more)]]> Mon, 5 Nov 2012 07:51:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Hacker-Leaks-VMware-ESX-Source-Code-304276.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Hacker-Leaks-VMware-ESX-Source-Code-304276.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Northwest-Florida-State-College-Hacked-Details-of-280-000-Individuals-Exposed-299047.shtml Sometime between October 1 and October 5, 2012, representatives of the Northwest Florida State College (NWFSC) noticed that the institution’s computer systems had been breached. As a result of the incident, the personal details of around 280,000 students and employees have been exposed.

According t... (read more)]]> Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:51:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Northwest-Florida-State-College-Hacked-Details-of-280-000-Individuals-Exposed-299047.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Northwest-Florida-State-College-Hacked-Details-of-280-000-Individuals-Exposed-299047.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/IEEE-Exposes-100-000-Passwords-NASA-Apple-and-Google-Employees-Affected-294762.shtml On September 18, Romanian researcher Radu Dragusin discovered that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) was inadvertently sharing the usernames and clear text passwords of 100,000 users on an FTP server.

According to Dragusin, - who currently works in the Computer Science department of t... (read more)]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 07:15:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/IEEE-Exposes-100-000-Passwords-NASA-Apple-and-Google-Employees-Affected-294762.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/IEEE-Exposes-100-000-Passwords-NASA-Apple-and-Google-Employees-Affected-294762.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Experts-Warn-that-Some-iOS-Apps-Fail-to-Protect-Passwords-Other-Sensitive-Details-292392.shtml After analyzing a number of highly-rated free applications designed to run on iOS devices, Bitdefender experts have determined that many of them utterly fail to protect sensitive pieces of information such as passwords.

For instance, Wi-Fi Finder by JiWire – an iPhone app which searches for free... (read more)]]> Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:48:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Experts-Warn-that-Some-iOS-Apps-Fail-to-Protect-Passwords-Other-Sensitive-Details-292392.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Experts-Warn-that-Some-iOS-Apps-Fail-to-Protect-Passwords-Other-Sensitive-Details-292392.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hacker-Arrested-for-Breaching-Israel-s-Court-Systems-292230.shtml Following an investigation conducted by Israeli authorities, 42-year-old Moshe Halevy – known to the blogger community as Halemo – has been arrested and accused of hacking into the country’s court system, exposing highly sensitive information.

According to the Jerusalem Post, authorities call this incident &ldqu... (read more)]]> Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:53:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hacker-Arrested-for-Breaching-Israel-s-Court-Systems-292230.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hacker-Arrested-for-Breaching-Israel-s-Court-Systems-292230.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Group-Holds-Data-on-12-Million-iPhones-iPads-and-Their-Owners-289850.shtml
That said, there have been so many breaches at so many places with hilariously bad security practices that there's not much that will surprise us as this point.

With that, AnonymousIRC just unloaded one million and one iPhone and iPad UDIDs, that is Unique Device Identifiers which are exactly what they sound l... (read more)]]> Tue, 4 Sep 2012 07:57:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Group-Holds-Data-on-12-Million-iPhones-iPads-and-Their-Owners-289850.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Group-Holds-Data-on-12-Million-iPhones-iPads-and-Their-Owners-289850.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Lucian Parfeni) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Theft-of-Cancer-Care-Group-Laptop-Exposes-55-000-Individuals-289016.shtml The social security numbers (SSNs) and other sensitive details belonging to both patients and employees of the Cancer Care Group from Indianapolis, Illinois, are at risk of being misused after a laptop has been stolen from a staffer’s car. A total of 55,000 individuals might be affected.

Besides the SSNs, the thief ... (read more)]]> Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:18:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Theft-of-Cancer-Care-Group-Laptop-Exposes-55-000-Individuals-289016.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Theft-of-Cancer-Care-Group-Laptop-Exposes-55-000-Individuals-289016.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Leak-1-Million-Accounts-from-Over-100-Websites-Worldwide-288194.shtml Unlike other hacker collectives which breach websites and immediately tell the world about their accomplishment, Team GhostShell prefers to target multiple websites before unveiling their work. They claim to have breached over 100 sites worldwide, leaking a total of around 1 million record sets.

The hacks are part of ... (read more)]]> Mon, 27 Aug 2012 06:57:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Leak-1-Million-Accounts-from-Over-100-Websites-Worldwide-288194.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Leak-1-Million-Accounts-from-Over-100-Websites-Worldwide-288194.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/6-5-The-Price-of-500-Compromised-Facebook-Accounts-282189.shtml Have you ever wondered how much your email or social media account is worth? If you ask cybercriminals, they would say that it’s not much, not much at all.

Dancho Danchev (writing for the Webroot blog) has stumbled upon a new Russian website where the access credentials to compromised accounts are sold. The usernames and pass... (read more)]]> Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:10:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/6-5-The-Price-of-500-Compromised-Facebook-Accounts-282189.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/6-5-The-Price-of-500-Compromised-Facebook-Accounts-282189.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/2-4-Million-Voters-from-Canada-Exposed-After-Loss-of-2-USB-Drives-282109.shtml Elections Ontario, the agency in charge of the voting process in the Ontario region of Canada, has notified electors that their personal information may have been compromised after a couple of USB drives have been reported as being lost.

The sticks contained the name, gender, birth date, address, and the election adm... (read more)]]> Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:30:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/2-4-Million-Voters-from-Canada-Exposed-After-Loss-of-2-USB-Drives-282109.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/2-4-Million-Voters-from-Canada-Exposed-After-Loss-of-2-USB-Drives-282109.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/IT-Wall-Street-Hacked-50-000-Accounts-Leaked-281904.shtml One of the members of the Team GhostShell hacker collective claims to have breached the systems of IT Wall Street – a website dedicated for those in search of an IT job in the financial services industry – to show his support for Occupy Wall Street.

“Hello there! My name is Masakaki, part of the Far-Eastern Financial District of #T... (read more)]]> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:26:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/IT-Wall-Street-Hacked-50-000-Accounts-Leaked-281904.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/IT-Wall-Street-Hacked-50-000-Accounts-Leaked-281904.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/RedHack-Reveals-Identities-of-Turkish-Police-Informants-281442.shtml After learning that journalists who support them have been threatened, the RedHack group has decided to leak another series of classified documents stolen from the Turkish government. This time, they leaked a file containing the identities of Turkish police informants.

According to the hacktivists, this move is a response to th... (read more)]]> Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:18:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/RedHack-Reveals-Identities-of-Turkish-Police-Informants-281442.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/RedHack-Reveals-Identities-of-Turkish-Police-Informants-281442.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Over-450-000-Usernames-and-Passwords-Leaked-Likely-from-Yahoo-Voices-280806.shtml A number of 453,492 email addresses and associated clear text passwords have been published online by a hacker group that calls itself the D33Ds Company. After analyzing the data dump, experts determined that the information likely comes from Yahoo! Voices.

Even though the file published by the hackers doesn&rsquo... (read more)]]> Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:11:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Over-450-000-Usernames-and-Passwords-Leaked-Likely-from-Yahoo-Voices-280806.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Over-450-000-Usernames-and-Passwords-Leaked-Likely-from-Yahoo-Voices-280806.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Breach-Formspring-Server-420-000-Passwords-Leaked-280625.shtml The owners of Formsping – the website where users can “share their perspective on anything” – reset the passwords of all their customers after identifying a data breach that affected one of their servers.

As it turns out, the hackers posted around 420,000 password hashes on a forum. Similar to the Lin... (read more)]]> Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:45:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Breach-Formspring-Server-420-000-Passwords-Leaked-280625.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Breach-Formspring-Server-420-000-Passwords-Leaked-280625.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Takes-Credit-for-the-2-Million-Syrian-Emails-Published-by-WikiLeaks-280004.shtml A few days ago, WikiLeaks published over 2 million emails allegedly obtained from Syrian officials and organizations connected to the Assad regime. The source of the large quantity of data was unknown, but a few days ago, the Anonymous community took credit for its involvement.

According to the hackers, A... (read more)]]> Mon, 9 Jul 2012 08:07:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Takes-Credit-for-the-2-Million-Syrian-Emails-Published-by-WikiLeaks-280004.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Takes-Credit-for-the-2-Million-Syrian-Emails-Published-by-WikiLeaks-280004.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Security-Brief-Diversity-279887.shtml There is a lot going on in the world of information security at the moment and this week (July 2 – July 8) we’ve seen all sorts of events, from Anonymous hacks and massive data leaks, to controversial botnets and vulnerabilities. This is why we call this week the week of diversity.

First of all, a number of interesting court actions marked this ... (read more)]]> Sun, 8 Jul 2012 05:01:01 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Security-Brief-Diversity-279887.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Security-Brief-Diversity-279887.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hacker-C0mrade-Leaks-6-GB-of-Data-from-Various-Companies-Worldwide-279899.shtml After publishing a large number of email databases allegedly obtained from Trend Micro and partner company Sykes, the hacker known as C0mrade returns with another massive data leak. Two files, totaling around 6 gigabytes of information have been posted online, presumably obtained from a number of high-profile companies.
read more)]]> Sat, 7 Jul 2012 09:26:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hacker-C0mrade-Leaks-6-GB-of-Data-from-Various-Companies-Worldwide-279899.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hacker-C0mrade-Leaks-6-GB-of-Data-from-Various-Companies-Worldwide-279899.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Leak-Over-200-000-Account-Details-in-ProjectDragonFly-279020.shtml Hundreds of thousands of record sets from the databases of various sites worldwide have been published by TeamGhostShell as part of the operation they call ProjectDragonFly.

“I am proud to say that #ProjectDragonFly is still pretty much alive and ready to raise awareness once more against the Communist Party, and a... (read more)]]> Wed, 4 Jul 2012 07:11:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Leak-Over-200-000-Account-Details-in-ProjectDragonFly-279020.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Leak-Over-200-000-Account-Details-in-ProjectDragonFly-279020.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Laptop-Containing-Patient-Data-Stolen-from-Texas-Cancer-Center-Physician-s-Home-278230.shtml On June 28, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center started sending notification letters to patients after an unencrypted laptop computer containing sensitive information had been stolen from the home of a faculty member on April 30, 2012.

An investigation began shortly after the incident and... (read more)]]> Fri, 29 Jun 2012 08:27:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Laptop-Containing-Patient-Data-Stolen-from-Texas-Cancer-Center-Physician-s-Home-278230.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Laptop-Containing-Patient-Data-Stolen-from-Texas-Cancer-Center-Physician-s-Home-278230.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hacker-Leaks-80-000-Email-Addresses-and-Passwords-from-Telecoms-Networks-277629.shtml The hacker known as C0mrade has published the login credentials, comprising email addresses and passwords, of over 84,000 users. He claims that the data was obtained by launching a man-in-the-middle attack against vulnerable software utilized by telecommunications networks from Mexico and Spain.

“America... (read more)]]> Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:07:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hacker-Leaks-80-000-Email-Addresses-and-Passwords-from-Telecoms-Networks-277629.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hacker-Leaks-80-000-Email-Addresses-and-Passwords-from-Telecoms-Networks-277629.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/17-Million-Last-fm-Passwords-May-Have-Been-Leaked-More-than-1-Year-Ago-274636.shtml Last.fm has released another update regarding the recently discovered incident. The details provided by the company don’t contain any useful information, but according to one user the list might have been leaked more than one year ago.

The Twitter user CrackMeIfYouCan, who is apparently the individual that... (read more)]]> Sat, 9 Jun 2012 08:25:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/17-Million-Last-fm-Passwords-May-Have-Been-Leaked-More-than-1-Year-Ago-274636.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/17-Million-Last-fm-Passwords-May-Have-Been-Leaked-More-than-1-Year-Ago-274636.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Last-fm-Advises-Users-to-Change-Passwords-While-Investigating-Possible-Breach-274363.shtml “We are currently investigating the leak of some Last.fm user passwords. This follows recent password leaks on other sites, as well as information posted online. As a precautionary measure, we’re asking all our users to change their passwords immediately,” reads a security update posted by the popula... (read more)]]> Fri, 8 Jun 2012 06:49:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Last-fm-Advises-Users-to-Change-Passwords-While-Investigating-Possible-Breach-274363.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Last-fm-Advises-Users-to-Change-Passwords-While-Investigating-Possible-Breach-274363.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Leak-1-5-Million-eHarmony-Passwords-User-Passwords-Reset-274164.shtml LinkedIn isn’t the only one that’s currently dealing with a potential data breach. Dating site eHarmony has also confirmed that some of their customers’ passwords have ended up online.

According to LA Times, the 1.5 million password hashes, many of which already cracked, may have been leaked by the s... (read more)]]> Thu, 7 Jun 2012 08:25:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Leak-1-5-Million-eHarmony-Passwords-User-Passwords-Reset-274164.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Leak-1-5-Million-eHarmony-Passwords-User-Passwords-Reset-274164.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Confirmed-Leaked-Passwords-Correspond-to-LinkedIn-Accounts-274126.shtml LinkedIn representatives have confirmed that at least some of the 6.5 million passwords that have been leaked on a Russian forum correspond to their users’ accounts. However, the company hasn’t been able to find any signs of a breach.

LinkedIn has taken immediate steps to remove the risks caused by the incident.... (read more)]]> Thu, 7 Jun 2012 06:48:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Confirmed-Leaked-Passwords-Correspond-to-LinkedIn-Accounts-274126.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Confirmed-Leaked-Passwords-Correspond-to-LinkedIn-Accounts-274126.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/6-5-Million-Alleged-LinkedIn-Password-Hashes-Dumped-Online-274048.shtml A 271-megabyte file containing hashes was published on a Russian forum a couple of days ago. The data allegedly represents encrypted passwords that belong to LinkedIn customers.

According to a Norwegian publication, dangensit.no, a total of 6.5 million LinkedIn password hashes are in the file.

The source cites ... (read more)]]> Wed, 6 Jun 2012 13:20:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/6-5-Million-Alleged-LinkedIn-Password-Hashes-Dumped-Online-274048.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/6-5-Million-Alleged-LinkedIn-Password-Hashes-Dumped-Online-274048.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Privacy-Issue-LinkedIn-for-iOS-Collects-Calendar-Entries-273960.shtml Researchers from Skycure Security have taken their time to analyze the iOS version of the LinkedIn application and they’ve discovered what they call a privacy issue. They have reached the conclusion after they found that the mobile app sends detailed calendar entries back to the company’s servers.

The feature itse... (read more)]]> Wed, 6 Jun 2012 09:39:00 GMT Softpedia News - Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Privacy-Issue-LinkedIn-for-iOS-Collects-Calendar-Entries-273960.shtml Data Leaks http://news.softpedia.com/news/Privacy-Issue-LinkedIn-for-iOS-Collects-Calendar-Entries-273960.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Eduard Kovacs)