A disgruntled gamer has managed to hijack the domain, email and Xbox accounts of Stephen Toulouse, Microsoft's director of policy and enforcement for Xbox LIVE.It seems it all started with a social engineering attack against Network Solution, the registrar used by Toulouse for his stepto.com domain.The Xbox offi... |
4 April 2011
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A 22-year old UK cyber thief who stole money from people's PayPal accounts to buy luxury items and gold bullion was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison this week.Richard Kirk, 22, of Sherwood, Nottingham, was accused of fraud and theft after breaking into 303 PayPal accounts and stealing a total of &po... |
23 February 2011
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Four members of the Missouri House of Representatives and one of their staff have reported their Facebook accounts being hijacked since the beginning of this year.Democrat Stacey Newman and Republicans Donna Lichtenegger and Dave Schatz are among the state representatives who fell victim to the hackers.According to S... |
8 February 2011
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Online dating website PlentyOfFish has reset user passwords after hackers managed to extract people's registration information by exploiting vulnerabilities in the platform.According to independent security journalist Brian Krebs, the compromise was first reported by an Argentinian hacker named Chris "Ch" Russ&o... |
1 February 2011
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Hackers have hijacked North Korea's YouTube and Twitter propaganda accounts and used them to mock Kim Jong-un, heir-apparent to the country's leadership, on his birthday.The accounts were created in August last year under the username uriminzokkiri, which means "our nation" in Korean, and were tied to a Pyo... |
10 January 2011
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A hacker has hijacked the Twitter account of Andi Arief, the Indonesian president's disaster management adviser, and used it to send a fake tsunami warning to thousands of people.Twitter has been the place to go online for real time news and rumors for a long time now and speed of communication is at no time mor... |
26 November 2010
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Sunday evening UK TV celebrity Kirstie Allsopp had her Twitter account hijacked by spammers, who directed her almost 48 thousand followers to a scam page.Kirstie Allsopp is a TV presenter for Channel 4, where she hosts several property-related programs like Location, Location, Location, Kirstie's Homemade Home o... |
6 September 2010
08:35 GMT |
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Lindsay Lohan claims that her Twitter account has been compromised by unknown individuals, who posted rogue content damaging her image and calling fellow artist Justin Timberlake a cheater. Celebrity gossip media is not convinced that she's telling the truth, but if she is, this would be just another entry on wh... |
23 June 2009
08:05 GMT |
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The official Twitter account of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), informally referred to as the Mormon Church, has been hacked by unknown individuals. The perpetrators sent profane messages calling Joseph Smith a liar. The LDS Church registered an account on Twitter about two months ago i... |
13 June 2009
04:27 GMT |
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A Facebook group counting 1,5 million users is riddled with messages containing unsolicited links and advertisements. The group has been originally set up to protest against a major redesign in Facebook's user interface. In 2008, Facebook rolled out a new design for its user interface, which apparently was not ... |
11 February 2009
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The hacker who compromised 33 high profile Twitter accounts a few days ago has came forward with details of the attack. According to his own version of the story, the unauthorized access to the management tools was obtained by instrumenting a dictionary-based attack against the account of a tech support staffer. Acco... |
8 January 2009
06:53 GMT |
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