Ex @UG member le4ky has come out of a few weeks silence to release a leak from yet more oil giants. The leak is dubbed as #SaveTheArctic – Phase 2 and has set sights on Shell, BP, gazprom and rosneft. The attack was announced via twitter and was posted to pastebin.com with a short message. All leaked…
Category: Breach Incidents
In: IIM-A suspects data theft from its servers
Haven’t seen anything on Pastebin or Twitter claiming responsibility, so I have no idea if this report is related to any kind of hacktivism, but Press Trust of India reports: The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has filed a complaint with the police “apprehending” theft of data from its computer network and servers by unauthorised…
300+ Pakistani Sites Hacked and Defaced By Pr4th4m & Jaguar
Two hackers have released a list of sites that have been recently attacked and left defaced. The two going by the names Pr4th4m & Jaguar claim the reason for these attacks as "This Hacked for the revenge of 13 July 2011 Terrorist attack by Pakistan on INDIA". The attacked sites all appear to have a common defacing which…
Formspring Also victim to hackers leaking data after being hacked via dev site
Yet another website has come out this month and announced that they are investigating a breach which has resulted in leaked data. The company is Formspring and this come as Yahoo, Nvidia and other high profile targets have been hacked. Formspring is the place where you can share your perspective on anything. Members express their…
Nvidia shuts down forums after suspicious activity
Nvidia has recently joined a whole heap of other huge name websites that have been effected by hackers this year. On July 12th Nvidia released the following statement and a week prior to that they had disabled the forums. The below statement is claiming that Nvidia has detected suspicious activity within the forums and has noted…
216 Sites hacked & defaced by Pakistani hacker hcrack2
A Pakistani based hacker has taken sights to 216 websites that have been left defaced after being hacked. The attacks come from hcrack2 who is supporting the "Sharp-cyber group" in his message. The defacement doesn’t really have any particular message but it shows that hackers from that part of the world are continuing to attack other countries via cyber space. The attacks are not main…