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’…
Category: Breach Incidents
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….
Netbashers return attacking Israeli sites for Anti-Zionism
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…
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…