zdnet.co.uk has reported that 14 people, 12 men and 2 women have been arrested for a phishing scam that has targeted just 1 women who was silly enough to give out personal details that allowed them to allegedly take over £1m. The arrests have taken place across England by the 3 major cyber crime units and there is reports that there…
Month: March 2012
Edmund Optics hacked; customer credit card information acquired
On Monday, Edmund Optics issued a statement on its web site about a security breach: On Sunday, February 26, 2012 Edmund Optics identified suspicious activity on our website and quickly determined there had been a breach of our security. Actions were taken immediately to stop the intrusion, increase security and prevent further unauthorized access to…
irandefence.net hacked and 2800+ accounts leaked
A independent forum that has no association with the Iran government has been hacked and had a fairly large amount of accounts leaked onto pastebin. the leak comes from Le0n B3lm0nt the same hacker who eairler released a few thousand accounts from several other websites as well. The leak from irandefence.net comes in the format of email, usernames, passwords and salts for…
Red Cross Sri Lanka Hacked And Defaced By Over-X
content/images/gallery/random3/hacked-by-over-x.png A hacker who use’s the handle Over-X and has over 4000 total defacing logged on zone-h has gone and hacked a very well known organization and left its Sri Lanka website defaced. The hack which is on the red cross is fairly shameful in our eyes, as the red cross for many years has been helping out community’s and victims of…
3000+ Accounts leaked from Cricket Website Cricfire.com
Cricket fans have become victims to hackers who have leaked over 3000 accounts from a well known cricket website/forum https://cricfire.com/. The hack comes from a hacker who goes by the handle Le0n B3lm0nt and contains 3,471 accounts. The leaked data is in the format of usernaes, passwords and salts for the encrypted passwords and of coarse emails. **Authenticity**…
Georgia Health Sciences University notifying 513 patients of security breach after laptop stolen from nurse's home
This notice was posted today on Georgia Health Science University’s web site, although I don’t see a link to it from their home page: Georgia Health Sciences University has notified 513 patients about the theft of a laptop computer that may have contained some of their personal information. On Jan. 18, a nurse practitioner who works…