Melissa Anderson reports: Two men have been charged with several counts of deceptive practices after allegedly stealing credit card numbers from restaurant patrons. Liang Wang, 29, and Ke Xu, 25, appeared in Helena Justice Court on Wednesday on six felony counts each. An interpreter from Hong Kong translated the charges since neither of the suspects…
Category: Breach Incidents
Hackers steal info on 200,000 Navy personnel (update 2)
Navy Times reports: The private information of more than 200,000 current and former Navy personnel was compromised in June when hackers broke into the Navy’s Smart Web Move Internet site, an application used to arrange household moves on official orders that was subsequently suspended, Naval Supply Systems Command confirmed Wednesday. The compromised database stored 11…
NY: Women’s claim holds City of Newburgh liable for data breach
Doyle Murphy reports: Two women claim the City of Newburgh failed to monitor a Newburgh detective who is accused of misusing a police database to run unauthorized background checks on people, including his former girlfriends. The women, identified as “Jane Doe I” and “Jane Doe II” in a notice of claim, say the city knew…
Hackers Leak Thousands of Passwords From Large Private BitTorrent Tracker
Enigmax writes: In an unprecedented data breach, tens of thousands of usernames and passwords from large private BitTorrent tracker RevTT have been leaked onto the Internet. The attackers, who call themselves Afghanistan Hackers, leaked the user/pass combinations via The Pirate Bay. The initial response from RevTT was to censor all discussion of the data breach,…
Lince Toyota Hacked 5,632 Personal Details Leaked
A Toyota group dealership Lince Toyota (lincetoyota.com) has been hacked and had a large amount of data leaked from its database. The attack which comes from xL3gi0n hacker using the handle Xc0unt3r was uploaded to pastebin in two parts and total count of accounts found is 5.632. The attack comes with no real message or reason beside the site was…
Cambridge University Under attack for #OpFreeAssange
Over the past few days previously hacked University, Cambridge has been a target for on going attacks that have ranged from database leaks, defacements and ddos attacks. The attacks which were started of by Null Crew have been joined by other hackers who have left the site with a new article after its jalooma based…