AnonymousAustralia Hacktivist #DoktorBass has just released a big load of accounts from the Women’s Land Link Africa website. From a initial go over there appears to be over 50,000 emails and passwords many of which appear to also be duplicates. The website that was attacked is https://wllaweb.org/ and The WLLA has been established by dedicated organizations already working at various…
Category: Breach Incidents
UK: ISP Netcom Hacked, Data Leaked after refused help by #NullCrew
Over the past days hacker group #NullCrew have been leaking dump after dump from many different sites. It appears while this was going on they had also accessed a English based ISP, netcom. As a result of this attack they claim they have contacted netcom about the breach and as a result they were simply told to…
Maplesoft Affected by Security Breach
Seen on Maplesoft’s web site: Maplesoft is investigating a security breach of its administrative database that took place on July 17th, 2012. As a result of the breach, the perpetrators gained access to some email subscription data, including email addresses, first and last names, and company and institution names. Any financial information held by Maplesoft remains…
NZ: Winz staff fired over privacy breaches
Jared Savage reports: Ten Work and Income staff members have been sacked after two inquiries into breaches of privacy for beneficiaries. The national review of the Ministry of Social Development was launched last December after an investigation into staff at the Manukau branch office. Seven were dismissed for “appalling” breaches of the code of conduct…
1,200 Usernames, Passwords Leaked from Yale University
Eduard Kovacs reports: The newly founded hacker collective NullCrew has been very busy in the past few days. After they hacked the systems of ASUS and the ones of a South African ISP directory, they turned their attention to Yale University. From the databases of the educational institution, the hackers obtained the details of around 1,200 students and…
Albert Gonzalez co-conspirator sentenced to 7 years in prison for Dave & Buster’s hack and other crimes
Aleksandr Suvorov, of Estonia, was sentenced yesterday to seven years in prison for his role in two separate hacking schemes involving a total of more than 240,000 stolen credit card numbers. Suvorov, 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sandra J. Feuerstein in Central Islip, N.Y. Suvorov was an accomplice to Albert Gonzalez, one of…