A hacker who is known by the handle Over-X has hacked and left an official fox news website defaced. The fox news website is the official Taiwan domain (https://www.foxnews.com.tw/) and the defacement is in the form of a sub folder index so the main website is not effected but at time of publishing the sub folder…
Category: Breach Incidents
14,000 Student Credentials leaked from KTU Career Center, Lithuania
An Anonymous supporting hacker using the handle Hacker sTz & sTz Bar has hacked a Lithuania based university and as a result over 14,000 student login credentials have been posted. The attack has happened some time in the past few days and it was announced via the hackers face book page but the leaked data was uploaded to…
24 Pakistan Government Sites Exposed For Common Passwords
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…
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,…