Chris Mills reports: Canonical announced today that its popular Ubuntu forums have been hacked. Attackers appear to have gather the user names, emails and IP addresses of two million users. Some passwords may have been accessed, although they were encrypted. The company was at pains to point out that the Ubuntu code and update mechanisms…
Category: Business Sector
Oh, damn, Friday edition.
Several weeks ago, I noted a misconfigured 2014 version of World-Check database and an analysis of its contents. The database contains information on individuals who have histories of allegedly being involved in financial crime, terrorism, or other types of crime. Banks and other institutions use such databases as part of their due diligence. Today, I see that two…
Technology firm hack compromised clients’ EHR records: The Dark Overlord
On July 12, the hacker known as “The Dark Overlord” (TDO) offered the source code, software signing keys, and customer license database for a firm that develops and markets software that among other things, implements the HL7 standards. The entity was not named in the listing on TheRealDeal Market. As I reported on July 12, I was…
Shadi.com hacked and data dumped, but do they even know?
From LeakedSource: Shortly after the hack of MuslimMatch.com, Shadi.com another dating site was hacked around July 10th, 2016. LeakedSource has obtained and added a copy of this data to its ever-growing searchable repository of leaked data. This data set contains 2,035,020 records. Each record contains an email address and one password. Passwords were stored with no…
Islam-based #EscortsOffline campaign continues to leak users’ data
For about one year now, I’ve been covering the hacktivism of a self-identified Moroccan hacker known as ElSurveillance (@ElSurveillance on Twitter). Other media outlets have been starting to pay more attention to him recently, too. As he had explained to me in December, ElSurveillance defaces and hacks sites advertising escort services or that have adult themes for…
Chinese businessman gets nearly 4 years in prison for US hacking case
Updating a case originally reported in March. Steven Musil reports: A Chinese businessman has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for conspiring to hack the computer systems of Boeing and other US defense contractors to steal military technical data. Su Bin, a Chinese national and the owner of a Chinese aviation technology company, was sentenced…