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Stories about: database hack

Online Vigilante Hacks Carding-Forum Database An unidentified individual has exposed the members of a Pakistani carding forum called PakBugs after hacking into the website. The vigilante posted a file containing usernames, hashed passwords and e-mail addresses belonging to the forum's registered users on the Full Disclosure mailing list. According to Mikko... 21 September 2009 05:21 GMT UK Parliament Website Hacked A hacker broke into the database of the UK Parliament website by exploiting an SQL injection vulnerability. The incident reveals very poor and questionable password security practices on behalf of the website administration.The security hole on parliament.uk was discovered by a Romanian greyhat hacker going by the on... 31 August 2009 07:02 GMT The phpBB Project Website Hacked The project website of one of the most popular open source bulletin boards, phpBB, has suffered a major security breach that has resulted in the exposure of 400,000 e-mail addresses. A hacker has obtained access to both the forum and mailing list databases by exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in the PHPlist newsl... 5 February 2009 04:11 GMT