Updated: 4.30AM – YES AM! Earlier today there was reports that Verizon wireless customers had been breached, it turns out that it was infact the FiOS customers who were breached in this high profile attack that has seen over 3 million credentials obtained. The leak comes from a hacker who supports anonymous but does not class them…
Category: Breach Incidents
Government sites hacked for Project Mayhem
A hacker using the handle @DiabloAnon has leaked data in the name of Project Mayhem from government websites. The leak was posted to pastebin and is only a very small portion of the complete database the hackers have access to. The leaked data contains administration accounts, database information such as tables, rows. All administration accounts…
Verizon FIOS allegedly hacked; 300,000 records dumped; more than 3 million acquired? NO! (updated to include Verizon statements)
Update Sunday 3:34 pm: In response to follow-up questions, Verizon spokesperson Alberto Canal informed this site last night: Some were Verizon customers, most were not. In regards to the number of individuals, the total was about 10% of what was originally reported. In answer to your question about a vulnerability: No there was not. There…
VA: Fairfax Schools leak: Personal student info will be removed
Hatzel Vela reports on WJLA: Fairfax County Public Schools Wednesday learned confidential student information from Fairfax High School was leaked and posted online, but that information is now being taken down. The information included student’s names, student ID numbers and even grades. The records listed students from 9th to 11th grade. Because senior students are…
End of the world Data Leaked By Game Over
Hacker Game Over @ThisIsGame0ver has today posted another leak of data that comes from various sites and services. The leak has been dubbed as #GameOverDay and comes on the 21-12-2012 (day the worlds meant to end) and was announced on twitter from Game Overs timeline and has been posted to the jollyroger.es archives. > #GameOverDay – jollyroger.es/endoftheworld.… – US Defense Contractor,…
And yet another contractor breach
Workers United attorneys have notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that an unnamed contractor had notified WU on October 25th that a hard drive containing some retirees’ names and Social Security numbers had been stolen from their office on October 13th or 14th. Notification letters were mailed to those affected on or after November…