Well today has been very busy and its only going to get worse as hacktivist from all over the world are starting to come out dumping information and defacing hacked websites. These attacks are in relation to an operation that was kicked up some months ago and was set for 5th of November 2012, which…
Category: Breach Incidents
Anonymous Release Antisec Teaser For #5Nov
Anonymous hacktivist have been working away in the background obtaining access to a few places and obtaining data that is being set for release very soon in the name of Antisec. The claimed has been posted by well known anonymous twitter account @AnonymousIRC who has stated that this is just a teaser. In the teaser…
LG Smart World Hacked 11,316 Accounts Leaked
The official LG Application website (https://www.lgsmartworld.com/) has been breached by a hacker using the handle @Ur0b0r0x who also recently attacked and dumped 30 sites from the Colombian government. The attack on LG has resulted in 11,316 user accounts and was announced from twitter and posted to pastebin as a teaser with 2 links to mirrors that…
Imageshack, Symantec hacked & ZPanel 0 day by HTP ( Hack The Planet )
**Updated: **first edit i made a mistake and stated that paypal was the victim of the 0 day when it was infact ZPanel. Sorry for any inconvenience or misleading information. Earlier today a well known hacker group, Hack the planet had released a Zine which contains breached information on 2 well known website image service Imageshack and…
FL: Bay County Sheriff’s Office Busts Identity Thief in Possession of Thousands of Tax Returns from Unnamed Preparer
Jason Hackett reports: … The trail led back to 26 year old Bryan Loyd and his home in Panama City Beach. Inside they found gym equipment, Michael Koors watches, Ray Ban sunglasses, flat screen TV’s, and other items apparently bought with fradulent credit cards. However, that was just the tip of the iceberg. “[We] located a large…
Strategizing the lawsuit against South Carolina
While I was offline, the lawsuit(s?) apparently commenced against South Carolina over their monster data breach. According to Meg Kinnard of Associated Press, however, plaintiffs might receive only a matter of pennies, as the state limits/caps how much a state agency can pay out for a breach, and that cap is $600,000. It may…