VOBHH or other wise known as Voice of black hat hackers, which is a Pakistani based crew which mainly does a lot of mass defacing has been at it again. Once again VOBHH have set sights on india and carried out an attack which has left 451 websites defaced. The defacing is not a main index deface,…
Category: Breach Incidents
Stratfor to settle class action suit over hack
Basil Katz reports: The global security analysis company Strategic Forecasting Inc will settle a class action lawsuit brought by one of its customers over a crippling attack by hackers who stole data of clients including Henry Kissinger, court documents show. U.S. District Judge Denis Hurley in Central Islip on New York’s Long Island earlier this…
San Jose State University officials deny hacker’s data theft claims
Robert Salonga reports: San Jose State University officials are denying a computer hacker’s claims he stole a wealth of sensitive personal data from its largest student-run campus enterprise. Monday, a hacker going by “S1ngularity” announced via Twitter that he infiltrated a server for the Associated Students of SJSU, a student-run nonprofit that oversees a host…
University of Florida notifies former law students about privacy breach
This sounds very much like the incident University of North Florida reported last month, but it’s a new/separate announcement from the University of Florida: University of Florida officials are notifying 220 former law school students and applicants who had sought a roommate online in the early 2000s through the Levin College of Law that their Social Security…
CA: USC warns of credit card security breach on campus
Students and staff at USC are being advised to check their credit card statements for unauthorized charges after a security breach was discovered at some campus food outlets, including dining halls and a Starbucks. A letter was posted on the university’s website Thursday detailing the recently identified security breach affecting credit card purchases made at…
TN: Montgomery County Schools ‘turn the corner’ after hacking
Adam Tamburin reports: The school system is set to spend $167,000 so far to respond to a security breach that resulted in the release of Social Security numbers belonging to past and present students and employees. That money has been split between $87,000 for software and hardware and $80,000 for experts’ analysis of the breached…