Billy Gallagher reports: Stanford University urged network users to change their passwords late Wednesday evening, explaining that it “is investigating an apparent breach of its information technology infrastructure.” Randall Livingston, Stanford’s chief financial officer, emailed the entire Stanford community, noting that Stanford does “not yet know the scope of the intrusion.” Read more on TechCrunch. Alerts…
Category: Breach Incidents
9,885 User accounts leaked from Intercessors for America by Anonymous
An Anonymous hacktivist has tipped us of to a leak of data from the main server for the sites of Intercessors for America. Intercessors for America runs ifapray.org and getamericapraying.com and is associated with god which with what we have seen in the past never plays out well when it comes to the anonymous hacktivist. Intercessors for America (IFA)…
Citi Bike: Customer Credit Cards Exposed
The Wall Street Journal reports: A Citi Bike software glitch accidentally exposed sensitive personal and financial information—including credit card numbers—of more than 1,000 of its account holders, the bike sharing program’s operators wrote in a letter last week to the affected customers. The data breach occurred on April 15, according to a letter sent to…
Viber Media hacked by Syrian Electronic Army? It appears so… (UPDATE: Viber claims no hack)
It appears that Viber Media has been hacked by the SEA. The defacement on the site’s support page reads: Dear All Viber Users, The Israeli-based “Viber” is spying and tracking you We weren’t able to hack all Viber systems, but most of it is designed for spying and tracking A screenshot, displayed on the support…
Hackers hit Lakeland with “sophisticated and sustained attack”, passwords reset
Graham Cluley reports: Kitchenware store Lakeland has emailed customers telling them that hackers managed to gain unauthorised access to its web systems and databases late last week. Although the company has confirmed that hackers accessed “two encrypted databases”, it has been unable to ascertain whether information was stolen. Read more on his blog.
Apple Hacked: Company Admits Development Website Was Breached (UPDATED)
Apple admitted Sunday that its website for developers had been breached by an “intruder” last Thursday, according to All Things D and other sources. In a letter to developers that confirmed the breach, the company did not “rule out” that developers’ names, mailing addresses, and email addresses could have been accessed. However, customer information is encrypted and was not…