Ralph Satter of Associated Press reports a 17 year-old Moroccan who claims allegiance to Anonymous acquired personal information on 350,000 users of a popular pornography site by hacking into an older un-updated forum: A small sample of the hundreds of thousands of pieces of user data allegedly compromised were posted to the Internet earlier this…
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NY: Student hacker arrested at Bethlehem High
Dayelin Roman reports: A 16-year-old Bethlehem High School student was arrested last week after police said he uploaded a virus into a school computer. Police did not release the boy’s name pending the possibility of youthful offender status, but said the school’s information technology department noticed a virus being installed on the network on Feb….
CORR and UPDATE: Nl: E-mail via Dutch KPN suspended after data theft
From ExPatica: Hundreds of clients of Dutch telecomprovider KPN are still unable to use their e-mail accounts after servers at the company were hacked. Unknown digital intruders stole personal data such as user names, home addresses, phone numbers and bank account numbers. A list with the names of 500 KPN users was posted on file…
WI: Computer stolen from western Wis. medical center
This is one of those breach reports that stumps me every time. Keith Edwards reports for WQOW: Hundreds of western Wisconsin patients are warned their medical and personal information may have been compromised. The Lakeview Medical Center in Rice Lake says a laptop computer was stolen from a car belonging to one of its nurses….
Steam hack was worse than originally reported
Three months ago, Steam acknowledged that they had been hacked on November 6. At the time, they wrote: We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums. This database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information….
Mobile Hack Update
Here’s a fuller version of the Associated Press report on a breach previously reported on this blog: … Mobile city spokeswoman Barbara Drummond said Utah authorities alerted officials Thursday night that hackers may be targeting the city. She told The Associated Press that the city shut down its computers to avoid the attack and that…