A small news item seen on WILX (typos in the original): A heads-up for LCC dental and vision plan customers—- check your bank records— there’s a possibility hackers may have your personal information. The possibility security breach with Assurecar Risk Management also affects former participants and family members who were on the plan. Hackers were not…
Category: Breach Incidents
(follow-up) St. Louis man sentenced for stealing credit card numbers
Following up on a breach reported previously on this blog, a man who recruited a waitress at f Amarillo Tex’s Steak House in Alton to skim card information has been sentenced for his part in the scheme. The Telegraph reports: Miltiano Trevaris Johnson, 31, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis, where…
Stevens Institute of Technology hacked; user data dumped
Another hack by #AntiSec, this time the New Jersey-based Stevens Institute of Technology. 31 first and last names, usernames, passwords (plaintext!) and email addresses exposed on Pastebinon July 7. And in many cases, the passwords are identical to the simple usernames. Not good. I emailed Stevens over the weekend to ask them about the breach…
Another Warning to Bashar al-Assad after damascusuniversity.edu.sy was hacked
A hacker going by the name of Idahc has given Bashar al-Assada warning via a paste bin leak. The leak comes from Syrian website damascusuniversity.edu.sy which is a university website, i am not totally sure behind the exact reason for hacking this exact site but it comes with a warning saying that they will target many…
Toshiba Employee database leaked by V0iD
Just come across a hacker calling themselfs V0iD, they have released 2 paste bin leaks based on a toshiba database which looks like emails and passwords of Toshiba employees. The 2 leaks can be found here and From Part 2 Some Info: _ There is total 14 "user"-lists. Who the fuck knows where they go? That’s not the purpose; try with…
Anonymous Leaks 90,000 Military Email Accounts in Latest #AntiSec Attack on Booz Allen Hamilton (updated)
Sam Biddle reports: Booz Allen Hamilton is a massive American consulting firm that does a substantial amount of work for the Pentagon. This means they’ve got a lot of military business on their servers—which Anonymous hacked. Today they’ve leaked it. The leak, dubbed ‘Military Meltdown Monday,’ includes 90,000 logins of military personnel—including personnel from US…