Alex Walker reports: Funcom, makers of The Secret World, The Longest Journey, Age of Conan and Anarchy Online, announced earlier this morning that their forums have been compromised and user data exposed. In an announcement on their website, Funcom announced that the data breach for the four games above included encrypted passwords, user names and e-mail…
Month: August 2016
Do you or a family member have a Health Savings Account? If so, read this.
If you have a health savings account (HSA), you may be one of many people who treat it like a savings account or an inactive checking account where you do not check your balance or withdrawals frequently. But your HSA may be an attractive target for fraudsters, and you need to protect it. DataBreaches.net has heard that…
Four states’ fishing and hunting licensing sites hacked (update3)
The databases of four state wildlife sporting licensing sites have been hacked, according to an individual who claims to be the hacker. On Monday, an individual calling him/herself “Mr. High” posted the following on an AlphaBay forum: I just hacked four websites and reported the security holes. Two of these were government websites. All of these…
Mail.ru Forums Hack Compromises over 25 Million User Accounts
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Data breach index service LeakedSource has added a slew of new hacked websites to its database, including over 25 million user records from three compromised Mail.ru communities. The three communities are cfire.mail.ru (Cross Fire game), parapa.mail.ru (ParaPa Dance City game), and tanks.mail.ru (Ground War: Tank game). All communities were running older vBulletin…
Regina hospital employee caught snooping medical records, including ex-spouse’s
Alexa Huffman reports: A recent report by the Saskatchewan privacy and information commissioner has revealed a Regina General Hospital employee looked up the personal information of 35 people, including an ex-spouse. According to the Aug. 17 report, the Regina Qu’Appelle Regional Health Authority (RQRHA) received a complaint from a female patient on Oct. 15, 2015. A…
@d4rkarmy Zine, Extortion, Leaks, 0days claims
Early today, a twitter account @d4rkarmy announced a ZINE which contains some interesting points but is still yet to be fully validated agasint its claims. For readers who do not know, a ZINE is a index of self published work taken from the old-school hacker days when BBS was common and twitter was not even…