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…
Category: Breach Incidents
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…
Hack exposes e-mail addresses, password data for 2 million Ubuntu Forum users
Dan Goodin reports that e-mail addresses, user names, and password data for every registered user of the Ubuntu Forums—estimated to be 1.82 million accounts—were exposed in a security breach. Read more on Ars Technica.
Ex-Army inspector denies accusations he stole troops’ IDs
I waited to post this one until I could get a copy of the indictment. 10TV reported: A former Fort Campbell inspector whose job was to investigate misconduct has been charged with stealing the identities of fellow Army personnel, including a soldier who had been killed in combat. Acting U.S. Attorney David Rivera in Nashville…
St. Mary’s Bank notifies more than 115,000 customers after malware infection discovered
St. Mary’s Bank is a state-chartered community-based credit union in New Hampshire. On May 26, they discovered that one of their workstations was infected with malware that could have captured anything displayed on the screen. A forensic investigation discovered that 23 workstations could have been infected with the malware as early as February 2013. Although…