From their announcement by KeyserSosa today: TL;DR: A hacker broke into a few of Reddit’s systems and managed to access some user data, including some current email addresses and a 2007 database backup containing old salted and hashed passwords. Since then we’ve been conducting a painstaking investigation to figure out just what was accessed, and…
Category: Breach Incidents
Forum post claims breach of 850k military based job seekers from recruitmilitary.com
Today a user has posted a new thread to a known forum that makes claim of an breach of over 850,000 US military officers personal information. The user who goes by the name booloop has also stated that they was given it by an anonymous source earlier this year, has not stated where it came…
Alabama Baptists affected by International Missions Board breach
The Alabama Baptist reports: A data breach at the International Mission Board (IMB) may have exposed personal information of current and former employees, volunteers and applicants. The IMB began a “comprehensive response” immediately upon discovering the cyber security incident on April 11 and promptly notified law enforcement officials, according to a statement released to Baptist…
Chile Cybersecurity Watch: Card data leaks, Santander investment, govt agency
Allan Brown reports: Chile’s banking watchdog Sbif reported there were two leaks of card details on Saturday. The leaks came just days after hackers published details of around 14,000 credit cards from local and international issuers. The first incident on Saturday involved details of 4,149 credit cards, which turned out to be the same as…
Public Safety Hack of D.C. police cameras was part of ransomware scheme, prosecutors say
Peter Hermann reports: When hackers took over two-thirds of D.C. police’s surveillance cameras days before the 2017 presidential inauguration, it appeared that the cyberattack was limited to elicit a single ransom payment. But court documents show that the alleged scheme that January was far more ambitious. Federal authorities say two Romanians accused in the hacking…
“Hear Me Roar:” Kaiser Permanente-related site defaced by GOT fans
Kaiser Permanente’s Health Innovations web site wasn’t looking too healthy on Friday. If you attempted to access the site, instead of seeing happy and healthy people and notices about becoming members, you might have seen a notice that the site had been “Hacked by Dohaeragon.” “Dohaeragon” is reportedly “serve” in High Valyrian, the fictional language on…