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…
Category: Breach Incidents
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’…
Back-Up Supplier Acronis Apologises For Data Leak
Tom Brewster reports: Back-up vendor Acronis has admitted some of its customers’ data leaked onto the Web, as it opens an investigation into what went wrong. Acronis said certain information from its knowledge base was opened up to everyone after the access control settings were reset to default. The back-up supplier said most of the content in…
66 Chinese and Iranian based sites hacked and defaced by poltergeisth4cker
It would seem poltergeisth4cker aka @komaatop has been busy lately with a pastebin post that contains 65 Chinese and Iranian based websites that have been hacked. The hack has left all 65 sites defaced, some of which are offline now and others are still defaced nearly 30hrs after the original post. 1. chnsp.org.cn/live.html 2. landwasher.cn/live.html 3. www.yfci.cn/live.html 4. www.tciscs.com/live.html 5….