James W. Manning reports that a self-proclaimed leader of LulzSec known by the screen name of “Aush0k” has been arrested in Australia. And not surprisingly, the IT security firm he worked for as an IT professional has fired the 24-year-old. Matthew Flannery was arrested after he allegedly infiltrated a government website earlier this month. No…
Category: Breach Incidents
UK: Personal data breach by police to G4S
Raymond Brown reports: An investigation was launched after private details on a massive scale were sent to controversial contractor G4S. The data breach involving personal information about more than 1,000 ‘backroom’ staff at Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire police happened amid negotiations to privatise services. […] The three forces notified the Information Commissioner’s Office in February…
Anonymous Responds to the Japanese National Police Agency
The Japanese police have made a move to ask Internet service providers to block the privacy and anonymity network known as TOR (The onion router). The news has come from a Japanese news site https://mainichi.jp on the 18th but no official statement from the Japan police has been made public at time of publishing. The video statement talks about…
Anonymous statement Message to the Government of Nova Scotia
Over the past few weeks tension has been building for a Operation started in the name of Rehtaeh Parsons who was put threw hell after a rape and sadly took her own life. Anonymous have started the operation (#[OpJusticeForRehtaeh](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpJusticeForRehtaeh&src=typd)) to gain awareness as well as asking for a full independent inquiry into the case due to the fact the police failed…
Hong Kong Police site hacked, 45 credentials leaked
Today hackers from Portugal Cyber Army @Official_PCA announced a leak of data from the main Hong Kong police website (https://www.police.gov.hk). The leak was announced from the @Official_PCA twitter account in the early hours of the 20th. > Police of Hong Kong Database breaches pastebin.com/PDEkRttB@cyber_war_news @thehackersnews @illsecure @ehackernews @thehackersblog — Portugal Cyber Army (@Official_PCA) April 20, 2013…
60 Minutes twitter account hacked
Updated: Gallery of images and screen caps added. sources at bottom of page. Just now the official 60 minutes twitter account has been breached. The account which is now suspended was breached not long after and started tweeting messages related to the boston bombing. The account was only active for around 5 minutes before twitter…