Hackers have broken into servers owned by Automattic, the company operating the WordPress.com blogging service, and might have stolen proprietary code.In a post on the official WordPress.com blog, Automattic's founder and president, Matt Mullenweg, said that attackers managed to obtain low-level (root) access on... |
14 April 2011
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The server housing the php.net developer wiki has been hacked by unidentified attackers who stole account credentials, thus sparking fears of rogue code commits.The php.net team announced the compromise on Saturday and noted that no other servers associated with the project's infrastructure were affected.Based o... |
21 March 2011
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The Metropolitan Police is investigating a security breach at St George's University of London (SGUL) which involved hackers compromising a mailing list and sending offensive emails to subscribers.The breach occurred on the medical school's Primary Care Electronic Library (PCEL) system, an organized collect... |
24 February 2011
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Batteries.com, a supplier of batteries and accessories for electronic consumer products, has announced a data breach incident after unknown individuals obtained unauthorized access to the server used to host its online store. Customer names, addresses and credit card details were stolen and some of the information ha... |
3 June 2009
08:12 GMT |
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David Ernest Everett Jr., from Blaine, Minnesota, has pleaded guilty to computer hacking charges in a federal court. He faces 10 years in prison for installing malware on 1,000 computer servers administered by his former employer and crashing several of them. Mr. Everett, 21, used to work as a tech support staffer fo... |
15 January 2009
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