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Philips hacked, Loads of data leaked by #Anonymous

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Lee J

Electronics giant Philips has been hacked and has resulted in a large amount of databases being dumped online. The attack was announced via social media and was published on the anonhacknews website and has been tagged with #Antisec #LulzSecReborn.

AoS @AnonOpsSweden #PHILIPS HACKED! DATABASE DOWNLOAD! [anonhacknews.blogspot.it/2012/08/philip…] [#Anonymous #LulzSecReborn #AntiSec #4Lulz]

The leaked files have been uploaded to various file hosting sites and contain a compressed file with raw sql database outputs. Some of the files only contain minor information such as subscriber names and ids but few files have administration and user accounts with encrypted passwords. All together there is well over 200,000 emails with at least 1000 of them have further vital credentails that could allow others to use the users personal information. Original leak more on this as it comes to light.


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