Jeremy Kirk reports: Hackers are circulating credentials for thousands of FTP sites and appear to have compromised file transfer servers at The New York Times and other organizations, according to a security expert. The hackers obtained credentials for more than 7000 FTP sites and have been circulating the list in underground forums, said Alex Holden,…
Category: Breach Incidents
Paragon Benefits employee pleads guilty to stealing TSYS and Kelley Mfg. employee data
Brittany Dionne reports the update to a case previously noted on this blog: The man accused of identity theft of more than 5,000 people at TSYS has pleaded guilty. Drew Johnson pleaded guilty to Unlawful Transfer and Possession or Use of a Means of Identification this morning at the federal courthouse in Columbus. The 26-year-old…
Reading Rockets Hacked, 5,000+ Accounts and Credentials Leaked
Hacker group @DeleteSec has been making a bit of noise in the leak scene over the past month or so and one of its recent targets is ReadingRockets.org> Reading Rockets is a national multimedia literacy initiative offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults…
#OpIndependence. Vitali Klitschko’s UDAR party hacked. Confidential data leaked
Hello We are Anonymous Ukraine We promised to strike at the web resources of Western hirelings and fascists that are trying to hurl Ukraine into chaos. For a start we’ve hacked e-mail account of one of the regional offices of the Vitali Klitschko’s UDAR party and downloaded all the stuff we found there. We strongly…
Thousands hit in Tesco.com attack
Mark Ward reports: Tesco has deactivated customers’ internet accounts after their login names and passwords were shared online. The list of more than 2,000 Tesco.com accounts was posted to a popular text-sharing site earlier on Thursday. The supermarket giant said the data had been compiled by hackers using details stolen from other sites. A small…
The National-Socialist Party of Canada Hacked, Credentials Leaked
A hacker who uses the handle @SQLiNairb has announced a leak of data from a well known Nazi Parties website. The breach is on the The National-Socialist Party of Canada official website (https://nspcanada.nfshost.com/) and was breached with a very simple GET based MySQL injection. The website which hosts information is really nothing important but considering the…