A hacker who uses the handle Godzilla or G.O.D has posted to pastebin on the 13th a statement which is followed by a list of Pakistani database credentials. G.O.D has carried out this attack claiming that Pakistan is supporting terrorist activities via ISI. Pakistan is a country which is currently supporting terrorist activities through ISI, and if they regret Pakistan…
Category: Breach Incidents
Steakhouse Data-Theft Leader Gets As Much as 13 1/2 Years
Just to follow-up on previously reported breaches: The leader of a ring of waiters who copied customer credit cards at New York steakhouses including Smith & Wollensky and the Capital Grille so accomplices could buy luxury goods was ordered to go to prison for as long as 13 1/2 years. Luis “Damian” Jacas, 42, oversaw…
Does a presidential executive order on cybersecurity get a hotel chain off the FTC hook for its breaches?
I occasionally check the docket for FTC’s lawsuit against Wyndham over the multiple breaches they experienced. A story in my news reader today about how Ben Rothke of Wyndham Worldwide gave a talk on “The five habits of highly secure organizations” struck me as somewhat ironic, and I decided to see where the lawsuit stood. Of…
Some days I’m glad I’m not on the A-list
By now, everyone’s probably heard that a lot of famous people had their details exposed on the Exposed.su web site. By the time the site was taken offline, over 234,000 visitors had viewed personal information on Michelle Obama, Kim Kardashian, Vice-President Joe Biden, FBI Director Robert Mueller, Former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,…
Arkansas State U. faculty victims of tax refund fraud, but source of breach still unknown
One month after it became aware that some faculty members had become victims of tax refund fraud, Arkansas State University still hasn’t figured out whether the breach was of their system or a third-party vendor’s. By now, 150 employees have reported problems. KAIT8 has the story.
Avast Germany Hacked & 20,000 Credentials leaked with payment information
Its that time of the month again when Turkish Ajan hacker group member contacts me with a leak from a high profile target, this time the target is Avast. The avast site is the German based .de domain which is the official GMBH based site (https://www.avadas.de/) for all avast related products and partner programs. The attack was…