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A hacker called SODT from Doxsters.net managed to breach the defense mechanisms implemented on the websites belonging to the School of Computing and Information Systems of the University of Tasmania (utas.edu.au) and the Rutgers State University of New Jersey (Rutgers.edu). The hacker obtained access to their databa... |
14 December 2011
11:07 GMT |
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A computer system utilized by The College of New Jersey since 2002 to store information on students who were applying for jobs on campus was discovered to reveal the details of other applicants to those who enrolled in the program.
A student noticed the error when he tried to apply for a job and realized that he cou... |
1 December 2011
04:00 GMT |
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Two students from Blairsville High School were charged after they managed to break into the computer databases owned by the school, obtaining personal information belonging to students and personnel.
Aged 16 and 17, the boys accessed the system, not by having advanced hacking skill, but by trying several username a... |
22 November 2011
05:35 GMT |
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AT&T wireless account holders were targeted by a hacking operation that relied on automatic scripts to find phone numbers that that were linked to online accounts.
According to The Register, only 1% of the company's subscribers were targeted and even if the malevolent operations remained unsuccessful, all the i... |
22 November 2011
02:48 GMT |
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While away on a holiday in 2009, Ruth Crawford QC's (Queen's Council) house was broken into and her laptop that contained information on eight of the cases she was working on was stolen.She only reported the breach to the ICO in August 2011 since that's when the cases that could have been affected by t... |
17 November 2011
11:05 GMT |
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Back in May, the French anti-piracy company Trident Media Guard (TGM), that was supposed to help Hadopi apply the three-strike policy, has been found leaking sensitive data related to the operation. Now, the Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des Libertés(CNIL) reviewed their security infrastructu... |
25 October 2011
09:20 GMT |
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A biotechnology company called Genentech suffered a data breach in August which may have resulted in the theft of information belonging to a few thousand of the million patients who utilize the company's support programs.
The ThreatPost reveals that names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, driver’s lice... |
14 October 2011
04:36 GMT |
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A 35-year-old man from Florida was arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation representatives, being suspected to be the one that hacked a large number of devices belonging to Hollywood celebrities.
According to Wired, Christina Aguilera, Mila Kunis, Simone Harouche, Scarlett Johansson and Renee Olstead are just ... |
13 October 2011
05:04 GMT |
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BlueHomes.com, a website that deals properties from countries such as Germany, Spain, Austria or France was hit by an anonymous hacker who claims to have leaked 500,000 user's sensitive information.A Pastebin account reveals that employees and customers can suffer after the plain text document reveals passwords,... |
12 October 2011
06:03 GMT |
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The webserver of the Austrian Economy Chamber (WKO) was accessed by a group of hackers and a large number of documents were made public on the internet.
The Austrian faction of the infamous hacktivists state that they weren't the ones to hack the server, claiming that the records were handed to them by anothe... |
6 October 2011
09:09 GMT |
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A perfect example from the United Kingdom shows us once again that companies fail to protect the sensitive information they are in charge of and take active measures only after a data breach occurs.
The Information Commissioner’s Office, an organization that upholds information rights in the public interest... |
6 October 2011
08:30 GMT |
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Nokia has warned members of its developer community that their email addresses and possibly other information have been compromised during a recent security breach.The intrusion occurred when a hacker calling himself "pr0tect0r" exploited an SQL injection vulnerability on Nokia's discussion forum for developers.... |
30 August 2011
05:41 GMT |
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After months of searching, security researchers have managed to obtain a copy of the APT used against RSA Security and found that it dropped a variant of the Poison Ivy backdoor.The March RSA Security intrusion which resulted in the theft of data related to the company's popular SecurID two-factor authentication... |
26 August 2011
07:27 GMT |
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The names and Social Security numbers of 43,000 former and current Yale University students, faculty, staff and alumni were exposed after a file hosted on a FTP server was indexed by Google."We immediately blocked that server from the Internet, removed the file and did a complete scan of the server to make sure there... |
24 August 2011
06:49 GMT |
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Epson Korea has warned 350,000 website users that their personal information and passwords have been stolen by hackers.An alert posted on the company's website encourages users to change their passwords immediately and advises them that their names, phone numbers and email addresses have been compromised.Given t... |
22 August 2011
08:58 GMT |
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An inexperienced female hacker claims to have broken into the BART Police Officers Association website and leaked the personal information found inside.According to a report in SF Weekly, the hacker is French and uses the online handle Lamaline_5mg, although this might be just a temporary alias.The girl claims that t... |
19 August 2011
10:56 GMT |
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Hackers have compromised the website of the BART Police and leaked the personal information of around one hundred officers, including their plaintext passwords.The data was dumped on Pastebin under the title "OPBART, Yet another success." This would suggest the attack was part of Anonymous' Operation BART, howev... |
18 August 2011
04:08 GMT |
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GOM TV, a popular Korean TV streaming service provider, notified customers that their personal information might have been exposed during an attack against its website."We regretfully inform you that at 2 AM KST, Aug. 12th, there has been an attack against our web site, GOMTV.net," GOM TV owner Gretech Corporation wr... |
17 August 2011
04:58 GMT |
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Game developer Bethesda Softworks advises users to change their passwords after its forum's database was compromised by hackers."We have identified a potential breach of our forum user database that occurred Friday morning, Aug 12. We have reset your forum password as a precaution, in the event that any encrypte... |
16 August 2011
08:57 GMT |
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Anonymous has kept its promise and attacked the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) service by hacking into one of its websites and leaking the personal information of over 2,400 passengers.The information released on Sunday includes full names, phone numbers, street and email addresses, zip codes, and plaintext passwords.... |
16 August 2011
02:33 GMT |
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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is notifying 75,000 students, faculty and staff that their personal information might have been exposed after one of the school's systems was compromised.UWM IT workers discovered on May 25 that a system containing sensitive data had been infected with information stealing malwa... |
11 August 2011
12:58 GMT |
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Chocolate giant Hershey has notified an undisclosed number of customers that their personal information might have been compromised when one of the company's websites was hacked into.In an email sent to affected individuals, Hershey notes that the security breach occurred on a website hosting consumer baking and... |
9 August 2011
12:43 GMT |
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Citi Cards Japan (CCJ), a subsidiary of financial giant Citigroup, is dealing with a data breach that exposed the personal and account information of over 90,000 customers.The company is currently in the process of contacting all affected individuals by mail and is monitoring exposed accounts for fraudulent activity.... |
9 August 2011
09:10 GMT |
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News International has begun notifying The Sun customers that their personal information might have been exposed during a cyber attack against the company's network two weeks ago.On July 19, the notorious hacker group LulzSec hijacked the The Sun website and redirected visitors to a fake article about News Inter... |
2 August 2011
13:21 GMT |
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The Consumer Union of Russia has filed a lawsuit against ten Russian online stores which exposed confidential information about their customers online.The Russian Internet community has been plagued by several high-profile data leaks in the last couple of weeks which involved personal data being indexed by search eng... |
2 August 2011
12:55 GMT |
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A data breach that resulted in the theft of information related to its SecurID authentication product cost RSA Security and its parent company EMC $66 million so far.According to the Washington Post, the sum was revealed in an earnings call on Tuesday. "We incurred an accrued cost associated with investigating the at... |
30 July 2011
06:55 GMT |
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South Korea is potentially dealing with its most serious cyber attack in history after the details of 35 million people were stolen from two of the country's largest websites by hackers.Reuters reports that South Korean authorities are investigating two large data breaches on the Nate portal and Cyworld blogging... |
28 July 2011
12:55 GMT |
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An USB memory stick stolen from a Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officer's home has officials worried because it contains sensitive information about police operations.The incident occurred on July 17 when burglars broke into the officer's Oldham home, stole multiple items, including the USB stick, and dro... |
28 July 2011
09:58 GMT |
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According to the results of a recent survey, British companies are more likely to suffer insider data breaches because employees in the United Kingdom are twice more likely to mishandle sensitive data than those in US or Australia.The conclusion is based on the responses of 3,484 employees from the three countries to... |
27 July 2011
11:00 GMT |
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Anonymous and its LulzSec appendage have declared war on PayPal and urge people to close their accounts with the online payment service as soon as possible.In a joint communiqué posted online, the hacktivists condemn the recent arrest of its supporters and reiterate their opinion that LOIC-powered DDoS attacks... |
27 July 2011
07:20 GMT |
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A hacker has leaked almost 300 logins consisting of .gov and .mil email addresses and passwords from the website of a secure bag manufacturer.The 290 emails and passwords were dumped on Pastebin by a hacker known as p0keu who is affiliatied with Anonymous' Operation AntiSec."And a lil' special one .. >... |
26 July 2011
10:58 GMT |
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Hackers affiliated with Anonymous and its AntiSec campaign have hacked into the website of Filipino Congress, as well as ten sites operated by the Peruvian government.Originally launched by LulzSec, Operation Anti-Security (AntiSec) calls for the leaking of confidential data stolen from governmental websites with the... |
26 July 2011
07:58 GMT |
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A group of hackers claims to have broken into the network of the Italian National Anti-Cybercrime Center for the Protection of Critical Infrastructure (CNAIPIC) and stolen confidential documents and other data.CNAIPIC is a specialized unit of the Italian Postal and Communications Police established in 2008 to investi... |
25 July 2011
05:27 GMT |
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Colombian hackers affiliated with Anonymous' AntiSec movement have hacked into a database belonging to the national police and leaked confidential information found inside.The hackers uploaded a PDF file online which contains various pieces of information including easy to crack password hashes."Today we have jo... |
22 July 2011
12:39 GMT |
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The Anonymous hacktivist collective claims to be sitting on around 1 GB of stolen NATO files, but says that publishing them would be irresponsible.In order to prove that they don't kid around, the group has published a single NATO file marked as restricted which dates back to August 2007.However, the 36-page doc... |
22 July 2011
04:12 GMT |
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The Information Commissioner's Office reports that University of York exposed thousands of student records by leaving a test area on its website opened accidentally for over a year.The security hole was introduced back in September 2009 during work on the university's IT system and was not identified until ... |
20 July 2011
11:21 GMT |
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Spartanburg Regional, a South Carolina healthcare system, has been notifying 400,000 of current and former patients that their personal information was compromised when one of the organization's computers was stolen.According to the healthcare provider, the theft occurred on March 29, 2011, when a desktop comput... |
19 July 2011
14:52 GMT |
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Medvet, a South Australian state-owned drug, alcohool and DNA testing company, exposed the records of over 800 of its customers by allowing them to be indexed in Google.The security breach was discovered and reported by The Australian, according to which, the health ministry was not notified in a timely manner despit... |
19 July 2011
13:06 GMT |
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Russian media reports that MegaFon leaked people's personal SMS messages by allowing the Yandex search engine crawlers to index them.MegaFon is the second largest mobile phone operator in Russia with over 30 million subscribers while Yandex operates the largest Internet search engine in the country with over 60%... |
18 July 2011
15:55 GMT |
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Toshiba has confirmed that one of its US websites was compromised last week which led to the loss of user account information.A spokesperson for the consumer electronics giant told the Wall Street Journal that its U.S. unit observed some issues with its web server on July 11 and began investigating.On July 13 the com... |
18 July 2011
10:57 GMT |
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The Pentagon has revealed that back in March it suffered a major security breach in which tens of thousands of sensitive files were stolen.The admission came from Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn in a speech about the Department of Defense's cyber strategy at the National Defense University in Washington... |
15 July 2011
04:34 GMT |
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Booz Allen Hamilton, the US government contractor targeted by Anonymous, confirmed that data leaked by the hacktivist collective was stolen from its network, but claims the breach was limited to a learning management system.On Monday, hackers associated with Anonymous' AntiSec operation published 90,000 email ad... |
13 July 2011
03:53 GMT |
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DC-based publisher Kiplinger has alerted its customers that hackers stole their login, personal and, in some cases, financial information from the company's database.The incident occurred on around June 25, but the company took two weeks to notify affected individuals because it waited for the results of an inte... |
11 July 2011
01:31 GMT |
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A group of gray hat hackers claim to have identified a critical SQL injection vulnerability in the website of Dukascopy Bank SA, a company that runs a Swiss foreign exchange marketplace."Dukascopy offers direct access to the Swiss Foreign Exchange Marketplace (SWFX). This market provides the largest pool of ECN spot ... |
7 July 2011
05:11 GMT |
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The Swag Security (SwagSec) hacking group has dumped two databases containing the personal details and passwords of over 50,000 Justin Bieber and Amy Winehouse fans.One of the leaked files contains the names, email addresses, location, gender, telephone number and password of over 5,500 Bieber fans.The data seems to ... |
5 July 2011
04:12 GMT |
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The UK Information Commissioner's Office has the National Health Service (NHS) in its crosshairs and threatens with higher penalties if health organizations continue to lose sensitive patient information.In a statement released today the Information Commissioner Christopher Graham characterized NHS' data pr... |
1 July 2011
10:51 GMT |
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A group of hacktivists known as the Peoples Liberation Front (PLF) have launched HackerLeaks, a website where hackers can submit the information they steal and want to make public.The recently disbanded LulzSec hacker group has proven that hackers are able to easily break into websites and computer systems belonging ... |
30 June 2011
12:49 GMT |
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Hackers have broken into a network of U.S. defense industry news sites and stole sensitive user information that could be used in targeted attacks.The targeted company, Gannett Government Media Corporation, who owns several websites including Defense News, Military Times, Federal Times, and Armed Forces Journal, noti... |
30 June 2011
09:46 GMT |
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Dropbox faces a class action lawsuit over a recent authentication bug introduced accidentally by its developers which made people's files available to others.According to ConsumerAffairs.com, the lawsuit was filed in California's Northern District Court by a Los Angeles Dropbox customer named Cristina Wong.... |
28 June 2011
07:54 GMT |
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Hackers who exploited a vulnerability on Citigroup's Citi Account Online website earlier this year managed to steal $2.7 million from the victims' accounts.On June 9 Citi announced that its Citi Account Online system was compromised by unidentified attackers who extracted the account data of 1% of its North... |
28 June 2011
04:02 GMT |
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