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…
Month: August 2012
Council data breaches increase by ‘alarming’ 1,600 per cent
Data breaches across the UK have dramatically increased in the past five years, figures released under freedom of information laws have revealed. Information disclosed by the Information Commissioner’s Office to a data security firm showed a major growth in self-reported data breaches every year. On average the increase since 2007 stood at more than 1,000…
50 busted in Shanghai for stealing and selling personal info (updated)
Zha Minjie reports: Shanghai police said today that they have bust a criminal ring that sold personal information to businesses for illegal gains. Police detained 50 suspects and found nearly 200 million pieces of personal information, such as cellphone numbers and home addresses, in their computers. One suspect surnamed Zhang took advantage of his assignment…
Bank vs. Customer Claims Rejected
Tracy Kitten reports: Labeling it “a very close call,” a U.S. district court has rejected a Mississippi bank’s efforts to have a former commercial customer held liable for losses, damages and legal costs in an ACH and wire fraud case. And one legal expert suggests the case could set a precedent for other similar fraud…
Assange supporters claim to hack Cambridge University
Ben Kendall reports: An investigation has been launched after a group which supports WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claimed to have hacked Cambridge University computer systems. The group named NullCrew, linked to the computer hacking network Anonymous, said it had targeted several university departments and broken into databases. The group published details of what appear to…
UK: Child database leak caused by error not hacking
When I posted a news item about a breach involving Gabbitas and The Independent Schools Guide web site, I duly quoted the reference to claims that the leak had been due to a cyber-attack, even though it seemed a bit implausible to me. An article in Computerworld today by John E. Dunn that reports there…