A hacker known as Visi0nZ has dumped 307 customers’ data from Andy Catering Equipment Ltd. in London: first and last names, e-mail and postal addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and plain-text passwords. The hack was revealed on Monday. RSI’s Court ADR Resource Center was also attacked on Monday. The names, postal addresses, phone and…
Month: February 2012
Couple of Sites hacked and defaced by Saadi and Hax.r00t
Over the past few weeks we have missed hundreds if not thousands of defacements by well known hackers so now its time to get bacjk into it. content/images/gallery/random3/hacked-by-hax-r00t-pakistani-hacker.png Saadi and Hax.r00t have taken down 4 Argentina based websites and left them with some music and nice message letting them know they have been breached. the site:…
TeaMp0isoN Hacks Syrian Military Accounts
TeaMp0isoN teamed up Anonymous earlier in the week to expose Syrian emails; out of that came an 80 MB dump by Phantom~, with help from AnonOps Sweden. Together they leaked the dump of Syrian Military and bank accounts at approximately 14:00 GMT today. Along with the following statement: Last few days I was looking at…
macforbeginners.com hacked and data leaked by xdev @ b4lc4nh4ck
xdev has left a mac tutorial based website ashamed today after hacking it and dumping a load of accounts on paste.bin. The target, macforbeginners.com is a privately owned website that offers help for people starting out with macs, but really they should be looking for help themselves to better protect there clients information. The leak…
A glimpse inside the $234 billion world of medical ID theft
Rick Kam, President and CEO, ID Experts and Christine Arevalo, director of healthcare identity management, ID Experts write: Healthcare fraud is costing American taxpayers up to $234 billion annually, based on estimates from the FBI. It’s no wonder that a stolen medical identity has a $50 street value, according to the World Privacy Forum –…
Senate in search of consensus on data breach notification law may try a backdoor approach
Tony Romm writes: Congress failed to pass a new federal law last year requiring the litany of companies affected by data breaches — from gaming giant Sony to shoe e-tailer Zappos — to notify consumers. But now some lawmakers believe they have a new route for passage: the Senate’s upcoming cybersecurity reform bill. Read more…