Over on Softpedia, Eduard Kovacs alerts us all to a paste from a group of hackers who call themselves TeamGhostShell. In a paste today on Pastebin, they introduce “ProjectWestWind,” exposing the hacks and vulnerabilities in universities around the world. I’m deleting their rationale and links to data dumps, but here’s a bit of their…
Category: Breach Incidents
Police shed light on Japan’s black market for personal info
I just read an interesting news piece related to the previous blog entry on the black market sale of personal information in Japan. It seems that Japan’s personal information protection law which went into effect in 2005 created the market, and one group made almost $11 million using employees of numerous companies to provide the…
hello-hello Language learning website hacked, 38,000 user credentails leaked
A hacker using the handle m0le has contacted us with a rather big leak from a website hat teaches different spoken languages. The website known as Hello-Hello (https://hello-hello.com) provides online services for people to learn other languages. The leaked data has been posted to pastehtml in raw extraction format and contains 67,000+ rows of user…
Afghan Islamic Press website hacked, weak passwords exposed by @VenomSec
The cyber attacks in the middle east have taken a turn to another country which has not seen to many attacks in the past. That country is Afghanistan and the hackers who are carrying out these attacks are known as @VenomSec. The most recent attack is on a afghan Islamic press (https://afghanislamicpress.com/) website and has resulted in the dumping of server…
JP: Suspects arrested in data leak probe made 100 million yen selling personal info
The Mainichi reports: A group of eight men under arrest for illegally obtaining and leaking personal information raked in nearly 100 million yen by selling information from family registries they had illegally obtained over the past five years, investigative sources said. But the 100 million yen – U.S. $1,282,780.00 – wasn’t their only profits. According…
AU: Thousands siphoned in bank ID scam
Peter Bodkin reports on an insider breach in the financial sector: Three men who committed a “sophisticated” identity-theft scam siphoned thousands of dollars from the accounts of unsuspecting bank customers using confidential inside information. Jason Urrutia, 36, an IT manager with five years experience at the Commonwealth Bank used his role with the company to…