Ralph Satter of Associated Press reports a 17 year-old Moroccan who claims allegiance to Anonymous acquired personal information on 350,000 users of a popular pornography site by hacking into an older un-updated forum: A small sample of the hundreds of thousands of pieces of user data allegedly compromised were posted to the Internet earlier this…
Month: February 2012
Mass Deface See’s 100+ Websites taken offline by Anonymous due to SOPA
The fight to stop SOPA from ever happening has already taken many targets and been used alot recently. One of the most recent attacks that is aimed at making governments aware that Anonymous is not happy with the SOPA support they show. As a result the most recent attack has said to of claimed over…
Possible iTunes Breach–Accounts Hacked
It’s not anything new that iTunes has been susceptible to hackers from the beginning: with it’s poorly trained help desk, full credit card accessibility, and Apple’s "[lack of responsibility] for In App purchases;" however, lately Apple has been getting a lot of calls regarding this matter. Accourding to one user I was hacked today for…
Nepal Police hacked and defaced
content/images/gallery/random3/hacked-by-1337.png The nepal government has seen its fair share of attacks over the recent months and these two fit right in with them. A hacker using the handle 1337 has hacked and defaced 2x sites which are sub domains to the main police website nepalpolice.gov.np. The two attacked websites are the traffic division and npa.nepalpolice.gov.np. [#]root@1337: Your system GoT…
CAMIMEX, Mexican Chamber of Mines Hacked And 700mb+ of data leaked by Anonymous
content/images/gallery/antisec12/antisec-anonmex-pastebin-com_.png Anonymous hackers have taken there sight to CAMIMEX, the mexican chamber of mines and as a result they have no leaked 700mb of data from the website which at time of publishing was displaying internal 500 errors. content/images/gallery/antisec12/antisec-anonmex-pastebin-com_.png These attacks come along side many others that have been taking place so far in 2012,…
NY: Student hacker arrested at Bethlehem High
Dayelin Roman reports: A 16-year-old Bethlehem High School student was arrested last week after police said he uploaded a virus into a school computer. Police did not release the boy’s name pending the possibility of youthful offender status, but said the school’s information technology department noticed a virus being installed on the network on Feb….