A relatively new twitter account that appears to be supporting the well known group Al-Qaeda @AlQaedaHackers has been very active over the easter weekend posting many different sites that have been breached. The breached sites come from many different countries such as Philippines, Iran, Thailand, Syria and all have suffered either defacement’s or downtime as a result of the breaches. The…
Category: Breach Incidents
Official MTV Taiwan HAcked, 607,286 Account Credentials Leaked
Turkish Ajan hacker group @TurkishAjan has today announced a large leak of accounts from another Taiwan based company following the attacks on Mcdonalds this week already. The announcement came in the early hours of Easter morning and the target this time the official MTV for Taiwan. The hacker group has announced the breach via social media and it appears the attack has…
Australian, Thailand Government and business sites hacked and defaced
A hacker using the handle Algerian To The Core has posted a paste to pastebin in the last 24hrs that contains a list of sites they have hacked and defaced. The sites start of with a single Australian government website which appears to be a subdomain for the official land exchange program site by the Victorian government…
Debunking claims that Mossad’s database was leaked
In a blog post on March 24, I expressed my profound skepticism over claims that Mossad’s database of agents had been hacked and/or leaked. Today, HuHu points me to a blog post in which the more likely source of the leaked data is revealed. The tagged email addresses in the leaked data suggest to HuHu…
FTC lawsuit against Wyndham moves to New Jersey
I haven’t read the court document yet, but Law360 alerts us that Wyndham won a round in court and succeeded in getting the FTC’s lawsuit moved to New Jersey from Arizona.
Bullying is not an appropriate breach response
I recently posted what I considered to a stupid lawsuit – one where the party that had a breach sued the hapless recipients of the breached information. Today I found another example of bullying and threats in response to a breach. It seems that an employee of Tooele County made an error years ago and…