Close to this time last year we started covering attacks from a crew going by the name netbashers, since then they grew to be well known and had since gone quiet again. Today @MR_Boter of netbashers has contacted us with the following statement that announces their come back and states they have started it with attacks…
Category: Breach Incidents
Well known musician sites under attack by anonymous hacktivist
Anonymous hacktivist have been at it again, targeting some well known musician websites. The attacks come from the wikiboat hacker @TibitXimer who has for the last few days been announcing the attacks. The sites musician’s that were attacked belong to Carly Rae, Justin bieber. Besides those two sites there has been many other attacks on Nazi/whitepower based websites,…
Best Buy says some customer accounts accessed by hackers using login combinations obtained elsewhere
Suzanne Choney reports: Best Buy says some customers’ email accounts may have been hacked. The retail giant is notifying those customers via email, telling them their current passwords have been disabled and asking them to reset their passwords. The email, which went out Friday, says in part: We are currently investigating increased attempts by hackers around…
AU: Did Stay Smart Online’s contractor lose your data?
Oops. A follower on Twitter DM’d me a link to this breach notification from Stay Smart Online, an initiative of the AU government: Notification of Subscriber Data Loss Dear Subscriber We are writing to notify you that the Department has been advised by a former external contractor that a DVD which included information provided by…
6GB Emails from Companies world wide leaked after Sykes and trend micro attack by .c0mrade
Last week we covered a story that got laughed at and went pretty much unnoticed by most of the public, trend micro and well known corporation sykes had been hacked and had its data leaked from a mail server by well known hacker, .c0mrade @OfficialComrade Lots of the information security sector has spoken out about…
UK: Welcome Financial Services Limited Fined £150,000 After Backup Tapes With Customer Contact Info Lost
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Organisations are learning the hard way of the consequences of mishandling people’s information – and others need to heed the lessons the Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, warned today at the launch of the ICO’s 2011/12 annual report. The Commissioner’s comments came as the ICO imposed a civil monetary penalty (CMP) of…