Early last week Anonymous and other hacktivist had started Operation Syria again in light to the Syrian government blocking Internet access to the outside world. Three days ago a hacker using the twitter handle @AnonHeart404 is apart of sector 404 had defaced the Syrian industrial banks website (http://industrialbank.gov.sy/) and its still defaced a over 72hrs later. The defacement contains a short message for the…
Category: Breach Incidents
wcites Israel hacked for OpIsrael, 20,000 accounts leaked
Today another Israeli based website has been breached and as a result a load of user accounts has been dumped on anonpaste.me. The site is american owned wcites but its the Israeli version of the site www.wcites.co.li which provides information on local areas around Israel. The attack was posted to ozdc.net by @c0mandEr0r and contains just over 20,000 user accounts with clear…
EE: Company Fined for Private Data Leak
Estonian Public Broadcasting reports: The Tallinn database management company Andmevara was fined 3,000 euros by the Data Protection Inspectorate for the potential leak of 126,379 people’s personal data in February. Capital residents who had applied for land tax exemption had their names, ID numbers, living addresses, property sizes and the amount of the tax exception…
Update on Acer India Hack & Data Leak
Early today i reported that acer India has been breached and that a dump of information had been released by Maxney. Since then i have now had a chance to check this 41mb compressed rar file and see if it does hold the said 20,000 accounts. To get right to the point the leaked data does in fact contain well over…
Anonymous Operation BBC #OpBBC
Currently the anonymous hacktivist from around the world have many different operations on going, one of these is OpBBC which is being aimed right at British media giant BBC (British broadcasting corporation). Currently the operation has been put to a halt due to the on going troubles in Israel but last week hacker collective @UGBrazil released…
Help track the Advanced Data Processing – Intermedix breach
Regular readers know how I hate it when companies are not sufficiently transparent about breaches, – where “sufficiently” is defined by MY standards and not just what the law may require. So when Epsilon didn’t provide a list of affected clients, this blog compiled our own list with the help of readers and affected consumers. And…