Estelle Shirbon of Reuters reports: A British computer hacker pleaded guilty on Tuesday to cyber attacks on targets including Sony, Nintendo, Rupert Murdoch’s News International and the Arizona State Police. Ryan Ackroyd’s plea meant his planned jury trial did not go ahead and, as a result, the court did not hear any evidence on the…
Category: Breach Incidents
VUDU warns customers after user data stolen in burglary
Damon Poeter reports that streaming video provider, VUDU, has been notifying users after user data was on a hard drive stolen during an office burglary: Vudu notified users that a break-in at its offices on 24 March compromised users’ personal information and account activity, warning customers to be on the lookout for “spam email, emails…
Syria: Hayan Petroleum Hacked, Staff Credentials Leaked
The past few days have been very focused on israel and now hackers from Latin hack team have moved over towards Syria after taking sights to one of its petroleum companies (https://www.hpc.com.sy/). Hayan Petroleum is gas and oil exploration company in the hayan block based in syria. Hayan Petroleum Company executes development operations in oil & gas…
IsraelFootball.com Hacked, Database leaked
In recent days there has been a huge amount of focus on israel with cyber attacks being carried almost constantly for a 24 period. One of the latest attacks is on an israeli football and information site named Israelfootball.com which appears to provide score and team related information. The leaked data was posted to pastebin…
#OpBlackSummer and #OpIsrael v2 Fake and False Flag Attacks
Over the past week or so i have noticed a great deal of false flag and fake cyber attacks that are coming out/ A lot of these team from dubbed operations and are related the Opblacksummer and Opisrael v2 and have been in the form of data leaks which have been duplicated and repeated to…
Latvian hacker prepared to turn to EU Court of Human Rights in regard to U.S. request for his extradition
The Baltic Course reports: Cyber-crime suspect from Riga Deniss Calovskis has turned to the European Court of Human Rights with a petition against the request from the United States for his extradition, LETA was informed by attorney Saulvedis Varpins. The attorney said that according to announcements made by U.S. officials in the past, cyber-crimes in…