Eduard Kovacs reports: The newly founded hacker collective NullCrew has been very busy in the past few days. After they hacked the systems of ASUS and the ones of a South African ISP directory, they turned their attention to Yale University. From the databases of the educational institution, the hackers obtained the details of around 1,200 students and…
Month: July 2012
Maine: DHHS mailing error exposes personal information
Leslie Bridgers reports: A glitch in the Department of Health and Human Services’ computer system exposed the personal information of public assistance applicants, including Social Security and bank account numbers. Information from 31 applications submitted online was sent out between December and June to 39 random addresses in the department’s system, said Dale Denno, director of…
AU: Diggers’ personal details released in email
Privacy concerns have been raised after the personal details of thousands of former Australian Defence Force personnel were wrongly sent out in an email. The Defence Community Organisation, which helps families adjust to military life, emailed a database of nearly 2,500 former Defence staff to around 400 other ex-service personnel. The information included names, identification…
Albert Gonzalez co-conspirator sentenced to 7 years in prison for Dave & Buster’s hack and other crimes
Aleksandr Suvorov, of Estonia, was sentenced yesterday to seven years in prison for his role in two separate hacking schemes involving a total of more than 240,000 stolen credit card numbers. Suvorov, 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sandra J. Feuerstein in Central Islip, N.Y. Suvorov was an accomplice to Albert Gonzalez, one of…
20,000 Clear Text Account Details Leaked From The Himalayan Times By @SirLeakAlot
A hacker using the twitter handle @SirLeakAlot has announced a fairly big leak of accounts in which all the passwords have been stored in clear text. The attack which is on the well known Nepal based website, The Himalayan Times has seen all administration and user accounts leaked from the site via a private paste site posting by @SirLeakAlot….
50,000 Accounts Leaked From ITWallStreet.com by @MidasBank
A member of Team Ghost Shell (@TeamGhostShell) has contacted us with a huge leak of accounts and other personal information that comes from a well known and widely used wall street based website. The site Itwallstreet.com was attacked by a member using the twitter handle @MidasBank aka Masakaki. In the leak comes a short message which…