Steven Musil reports: Yahoo appears to have been the victim of a security breach that yielded more than hundreds of thousands of login credentials stored in plain text. The hacked data, posted to the hacker site D33D Company, contained more than 453,000 login credentials and appears to have originated from the Web pioneer’s network. The…
Category: Breach Incidents
WA: Olympic College students, employees report credit card fraud
Another recent uni breach? It seems possible. The Kitsap Sun reported on July 3: At least 16 people have reported that their credit cards might have been compromised at Olympic College. The victims — 11 students and 4 employees on the Bremerton campus and one student at the Shelton campus — told college security officers that…
Formspring resets 28m passwords after development server hacked and passwords leaked
Kahla Preston reports: Users of Formspring, a social question and answer website popular among young teenagers, today learned their passwords were disabled by site administrators following a security breach. Read more on The Age. In a message on their blog yesterday, Formspring writes: Urgent: Change Your Formspring Password We learned this morning that we had…
Hackers steal financial data from diners at Winchester restaurant
Josh Kegley reports: Central Kentucky residents who recently ate at Puerta Grande restaurant in Winchester are urged to check their bank and credit card statements because of a major data breach. The breach resulted in the theft of credit card information from between 50 and 100 people, with reports still coming in Tuesday, Winchester police…
Personal Attacks Lead to roatpkz.com database being hacked and leaked by @TeamSt34m
A fairly well known and popular game site roatpkz.com has become victim to a personal attack that was aimed towards a few of the sites users. The attacks which comes from Encrypted or other wise known as @TeamSt34m was aimed at the site after ddos attacks were carried out toward encrypted and friends by members of…
Anonymous hack hands WikiLeaks TWO MILLION Syrian emails
Phil Muncaster reports: Hacktivist group Anonymous is claiming responsibility for an attack on the computer systems of the Syrian government and its evil overlord Bashar Assad thanks to which over two million emails ended up in the hands of whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks. As of last Thursday, the site began drip-feeding sections of the ‘Syria Files’…