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More than 8,000 usernames and password hashes were leaked by RevolutionSec from the official website of China’s Trade Administration (trade.gov.cn). Cyberwarnews informs that the massive data leak was published on Pastebin in two parts, the hackers, part of Anonymous, claiming that the breach is part of OpChin... |
14 February 2012
11:41 GMT |
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Turkey’s Information Technologies and Communications Authority was breached by Anonymous hackers as part of Operation Digiturk. The operation was launched after the one of the country’s satellite television providers, Digiturk, blocked a couple of blogs that were hosting copyrighted materials.
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14 February 2012
10:33 GMT |
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The official websites of the US National Weather Service (weather.gov) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the US Department of Commerce (noaa.gov) were breached by a hacker that goes by the name of Codeinsec.
The hacker didn’t provide any details regarding the purpose for which the sit... |
14 February 2012
09:11 GMT |
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A couple of hackers known as Bch195 and HaxOr managed to breach the website of the world renowned electronics manufacturer Philips, defacing one of the official site’s subdomains. Cyberwarnews informs that the hackers not only defaced the microsites subdomain, but they’ve also leaked tons of information ... |
14 February 2012
05:11 GMT |
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The official website of the US Census Bureau (census.gov), the government organization that gathers demographic and economic data, was hacked by members of r00tw0rm and inj3ct0r, the hackers obtaining what they call a “secret zip file.”
A Pastebin file reveals a sample of the data they obtained from the ... |
13 February 2012
09:19 GMT |
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A hacked called Chriss10011, a member of TheAdipiscing group, hacked an official site of the Big Dance, an event programmed for 2010 and 2012, considered to be the “London dance experience.” The hackers didn’t say exactly which site they breached, but since only the 2010 event was sponsored by T-Mo... |
13 February 2012
04:57 GMT |
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If up until now they only found vulnerabilities in major websites with the purpose of letting administrators know that their assets may be exposed to cybercriminal operations, members of TeamHav0k revealed their activist side and intervened in the cyber battle taking place between Indian and Bangladeshi hacktivists. ... |
13 February 2012
03:28 GMT |
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Members of two hacker collectives, Team r00tw0rm and Team inj3ct0r, identified an SQL injection vulnerability on one of the subdomains owned by NASA and hosted on the domain nasa.gov. By leveraging the security hole, the hackers obtained a 6 gigabyte database, but refused to disclose the name of the flawed subdomain ... |
13 February 2012
02:53 GMT |
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As part of their operations against law enforcement agencies, Anonymous hackers breached the sites of the Alabama Department of Public Safety, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and the Mobile Police Department, also based in Alabama, leaking information from their databases.
DataBreaches sums up the hacks nicel... |
10 February 2012
04:58 GMT |
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The hacker collective known as ZCompany Hacking Crew (ZHC) managed to leak the details of more than 200 credit cards from unnamed Israeli and US websites as part of Operation Free Palestine.
In a Pastebin document, along with the credit card numbers and their expiration dates, ZHS also listed some UN resolutions tha... |
9 February 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Since they failed to patch up the vulnerabilities that allowed hackers to gain access and leak data from their servers the first time, members of TeaMp0isoN revisited the United Nations Development Programme website and leaked another round of data. Even more, they found a series of vulnerabilities present in the org... |
9 February 2012
10:43 GMT |
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The famous hacktivist collective TeaMp0isoN continues to hack websites that belong to governments they consider corrupt and violent. Their latest hack’s purpose was to support the Syrian people in their fight against the local government and, as a result, they leaked tons of banking information. “Last fe... |
9 February 2012
03:04 GMT |
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After identifying vulnerabilities in the sites of a large number of important US universities, members of TeamHav0k add another one to the list. It seems that the official website of Yale University contains an SQL Injection vulnerability that allowed the hackers to gain access and leak tons of information. A Pasteb... |
8 February 2012
11:05 GMT |
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Hacktivists part of TeaMp0isoN continue their operations against the governments they consider to be corrupt, their latest targets being the ones from Nigeria and Peru.
The hackers leaked around 200 megabytes worth of sensitive data obtained from the servers of the Peruvian government, mainly consisting of pdf file... |
8 February 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Foxconn.com, the site of the multinational electronics manufacturing company that works with some major industry names such as Intel, IBM, Microsoft and Apple, was taken offline after a group of hackers that call themselves Swagg Security breached their systems and leaked tons of data.
Cyberwarnews reports that the ... |
8 February 2012
07:35 GMT |
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Security experts came across a piece of malware that’s cleverly programmed to steal documents from the infected computer. While this may not be new, the twist to this story is that the malicious element is designed to upload the obtained Microsoft Word and Excel files to the hosting site sendspace.com Trend Mi... |
8 February 2012
05:51 GMT |
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After a lot of controversy and threats the hackers finally leaked the source code for Symantec’s pcAnywhere product, along with the emails we saw earlier today that contained the conversations between the hackers and the law enforcement representative that helped Symantec in the extorsion case.
The 1.4 gigabyt... |
7 February 2012
08:51 GMT |
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By relying on a vulnerability they found on the official website of University of Washington (washington.edu), hackers called NOBODY and NOLIFE managed to gain access and obtain a large quantity of sensitive data from their databases. The Hacker News informs that a Pastebin file contains usernames, passwords, email ... |
7 February 2012
04:45 GMT |
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Ever since Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, started to retaliate against the citizens’ protest in a violent manner, Anonymous hacktivists from all over the world began showing their involvement.
Their latest target is the site of the Ministry of Public Administration, from which they managed to obtain ... |
6 February 2012
09:17 GMT |
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After they leaked more than 26,000 credit card details to show their support for Operation Free Palestine, members of TeaMp0isoN return with another massive data leak as part of the operation launched by hacktivists worldwide against the Nigerian government.
“Tonight we've got some databases from some inf... |
6 February 2012
05:00 GMT |
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Just like the famous hacker Kevin Mitnick spied on the FBI agents that were investigating him back in the days when he used to illegally access the networks of phone companies, Anonymous hacktivist obtained a recording of a conference call between FBI agents and UK law enforcement officers.
A Pastebin document reve... |
3 February 2012
10:20 GMT |
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Voice of Grey Hat provides a Pastebin document that allegedly contains login credentials obtained by THA Disastar hackers after breaching a number of websites belonging to Vodafone.
Judging by the data leak, the hackers obtained some login credentials to Vodafone Greece, Vodafone Australia, Vodafone Italy, Vodafone ... |
3 February 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Anonymous hackers managed to gain access to the official website of the Irish government’s Department of Foreign Affairs, obtaining passwords used by employees and officials. Some of the passwords were used to administrate the website Irish Aid, an overseas development program.
According to The Journal, member... |
3 February 2012
06:27 GMT |
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One of Australia’s largest domain trading websites admitted to being hacked by a group of unnamed hackers who managed to gain access to customer information, including names, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers and credit card information.
SC Magazine reports that the credit card numbers and the... |
3 February 2012
05:48 GMT |
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A number of 1,136 individuals who were victims of car thieves or pickpockets received a wrongly configured email as part of a survey that revealed the e-mail addresses of all the other recipients.
The Guardian reports that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has been informed on the error, Scotland Yar... |
2 February 2012
10:26 GMT |
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Unnamed hackers managed to breach the website of Universal Music Portugal, publishing in a Pastebin document all the information they could find in their databases.
Cyberwarnews reports that 314 valid email addresses, usernames and passwords, all in clear-text, were made available by the hackers.
Shortly after the... |
2 February 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Operation Free Palestine, the op started by TeaMp0isoN, Anonymous and other hacktivist worldwide, continues. As a result, members of TeaMp0isoN published the credit card details of more than 26,000 Israeli citizens obtained from a couple of major Israeli websites, including One (one.co.li), the site that not long ago... |
2 February 2012
08:15 GMT |
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After moving his operations out of Africa, the grey hat hacker known as SEPO moved his operations to the Middle East, where just like in Africa, he targets banks and other major institutions that are either considered corrupt or simply vulnerable.
His last operation targeted the Central Bank of Bahrain, a financial ... |
2 February 2012
03:05 GMT |
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Australian media giant Fairfax confirmed that two of its websites, Herald Education and Young Writer, were breached by hackers, forcing them to temporarily block users from accessing the affected domains.
In an interview with SC Magazine, the unnamed hackers revealed that they breached the sites only to show that th... |
1 February 2012
09:39 GMT |
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Hackers from Team Grey Hat (TGH), the ones that consider themselves as the “Achilles of the cyber world” breached another important website as part of their protest against the Indian government. The Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) was hacked because members of TGH believe that Indian children hav... |
31 January 2012
02:11 GMT |
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The hacker known as SEPO managed to breach three important sites, accessing their databases and leaking sensitive information online for everyone to see. First, he managed to access the servers of ProCredit Bank, a financial institution from Bosnia and Herzegovina, but since the part of the server he had breached di... |
28 January 2012
04:29 GMT |
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An activist organization called Deep Green Resistance (DGR) is accusing both Stratfor and Texas law enforcement representatives of violating their constitutional rights by spying on their movement and infiltrating the Occupy protest to gather information.
While the massive quantity of information leaked by Anonymous... |
27 January 2012
10:56 GMT |
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An Xbox Live community with around 35,000 members called Xbox Live Clans suffered a data breach, hackers managing to obtain and leak usernames, represented by email addresses, and password hashes. The hacker alsa7r posted all the information on Pastebin, potentially exposing all the forum’s members. At the ti... |
27 January 2012
07:44 GMT |
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In the past few days the Brazilian government and its institutions were highly targeted by hacktivists as part of different operations that were launched for diverse reasons. Since there were so many ops and so many sites were being defaced and hit with distributed denial of service attacks, we’ve decided to go... |
26 January 2012
07:05 GMT |
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The official website of Endiama (Empresa Nacional de Diamantes), the national diamond company of Angola, suffered a data breach, the hacker known as SEPO managing to obtain and leak sensitive information from their databases.
“So, such big company with a security that [expletive]... Oh! I forgot! They just [ex... |
25 January 2012
07:38 GMT |
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The New York State Public Service Commission issued a press release and started sending out notification letters to around two million individuals after they had identified a data breach as a result of which sensitive information might have been obtained by an unknown attacker.
The customer information systems of th... |
25 January 2012
04:16 GMT |
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Notorious black hats that hacked thousands of websites in their lifetime gather gigabytes of information stolen from their victims, much of which is never published online. Phantom~, one of the members of TeaMp0isoN, decided to clean up his hard drive and publish tons of data he collected as a result of breaching sit... |
23 January 2012
08:19 GMT |
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DreamHost, a company that hosts more than a million domains, is notifying customers that hackers may have obtained unauthorized access to some of their passwords, advising them to change their FTP/shell access passwords, but also their email passwords.
“Our security systems detected the potential breach this... |
21 January 2012
05:30 GMT |
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A hacker that calls himself C'Seven Booter hacked six Indian websites as part of Operation Free Palestine, an operation first announced by TeaMp0isoN and Anonymous. The hacker breached the websites of an Indian restaurant, KGSG Bank, India TV News, and a couple of subdomains that belong to the country’s l... |
20 January 2012
10:00 GMT |
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The fact that the hacker 0xOmar leaked information from a large number of credit cards belonging to Israeli citizens caused a lot of commotion, and pro-Israel hackers are determined to retaliate and win this unofficial cyberwar.
A Pastebin document provides the statement of the “pro-Israeli person,” who ... |
18 January 2012
10:16 GMT |
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Researchers came across an Argentinian veterinary supplier website that had been compromised and exploited to the maximum by cybercriminals.
Kaspersky Lab experts found that not only was it redesigned to spread malicious Brazilian Trojans that targeted bank accounts, but it may also have been probed by a Russian hac... |
18 January 2012
09:50 GMT |
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A hacker managed to bypass the security mechanisms implemented by online clothing and accessories store David Morgan, leaking usernames, represented by emails, and password hashes.
The hacker posted a number of 6,000 credential sets on Pastebin, but he claims that he obtained more than 24,000 in total.
“Ohai... |
18 January 2012
04:11 GMT |
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Canada-based Video Games Plus (VGP), a major gaming website that commercializes games and console accessories has been breached after the hacker xdev@b4lc4nh4ck managed to bypass their security protocols.
Names, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers and encrypted passwords belonging to 21,000 of their user... |
17 January 2012
10:31 GMT |
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The websites belonging to Israel’s national airline company, El Al, and the country’s stock exchange were shut down after a group of pro-Palestine hackers called Nightmare breached their systems. Ynet reports that they learned of the operations that targeted El Al and the stock exchange even before the w... |
16 January 2012
10:55 GMT |
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A couple of gaming websites, Catalyst-Gaming (catalystgaming.net) from Northern Tasmania and Game (game.co.uk) from the United Kingdom, are the latest victims of hackers. As security solutions providers predicted, gamer communities are becoming a tempting target to hackers and their operations, especially since man... |
16 January 2012
07:49 GMT |
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CoveritLive, a live-event publishing platform owned by Demand Media, revealed that they recently discovered that a hacker may have illegally accessed their systems on January 7.
Launched in 2007, the company’s services are currently utilized by some major media firms such as ESPN, Fox, Gannett, Sky Sports, The... |
16 January 2012
06:37 GMT |
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The infamous hacktivist collective TeaMp0isoN breached the official website of T-Mobile, one of the largest wireless communications providers in the world, leaking sensitive login information that belongs to their staff and administrators. The hackers posted a document on Pastebin to prove the success of the operati... |
16 January 2012
05:02 GMT |
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Zappos.com, an online shoe and clothing retailer acquired by Amazon in 2009 for $807 million (564 million EUR), suffered a data breach that may have exposed some sensitive information belonging to their 24 million customers.
Names, email addresses, mailing addresses and the last four digits from their clients’... |
16 January 2012
03:43 GMT |
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A couple of days ago we’ve learned how the file hosting and online storage site FileDen was breached by a hacker called xdev@b4lc4nh4ck who managed to leak 4,500 customer account details. The website is currently down for maintenance and its administrators are working on securing user data. After learning of t... |
14 January 2012
02:52 GMT |
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After 0xOmar, an allegedly Saudi hacker, leaked the credit card details of a few thousand Israelis, his Israeli counterpart, 0xOmer published sensitive information that could affect more than 5,000 Saudi and non-Saudi credit card holders. The Saudi Gazette reports that a couple of major banks have already started se... |
13 January 2012
14:51 GMT |
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