In a message that undoubtedly should send shudders down the spines of those involved in the security of UK census data, the hacking collective known as LulzSec posted a message on Pastebin yesterday: Greetings Internets, We have blissfully obtained records of every single citizen who gave their records to the security-illiterate UK government for the…
Category: Breach Incidents
(update) Debit card breach affects several hundred card holders
The numbers of fraud reports related to the Michaels Store breach continues to climb. Jack Moran reports: Federal authorities investigating a major data breach at craft retailer Michaels are fast becoming aware of its impact on debit card holders in Oregon. During the past week, local police agencies from Portland to Medford have fielded several…
US Department of Agricultural database exposed by uberleaks
Uber leaks joins the boat It would seem that the anti security operation has a new player; uberleaks, they just released a sheet of database information from the us department of agricultural, SNAP ed center. they released the link to the paste site with the database shortly after stating it they had it;
Tango down Serious Organised Crime Agency
Tango down SOCA; confirmed Serious Organised Crime Agency has been knocked offline by LulzSec {Gallery} the tweet which was posted by lulzsec was; Tango down – soca.gov.uk – in the name of #AntiSec followed by a few tweets which read; Later we’ll unleash fire on multiple targets. That last one is down depending on which area you’re from….
Hackers claim 177K e-mails from Sony Pictures France
Erica Ogg reports: Sony’s turn as the whipping boy for Internet hackers continued over the weekend. Two hackers posted a list of e-mails they say they took from the Sony Pictures France Web site. The two hackers who claim responsibility are a Lebanese student who goes by the handle Idahc, and a French friend of his…
Sony Portugal latest to fall to hackers
On June 9, Chester Wisniewski wrote (but I missed): The same Lebanese hacker who targeted Sony Europe on Friday has now dumped a database from Sony Portugal. The hacker claims to be a grey hat, not a black hat, according to his post to pastebin.com. “I am not a black hat to dump all the…