Melissa Cutler reports: A California man with North Texas ties is behind bars for drug possession. He was also in a downtown Dallas hotel room that appeared to be the center of an extensive identity theft operation. On Monday Dallas police arrested 26-year-old Justin Bennett. His last known address is in Los Angeles but records…
Category: Breach Incidents
WHMCS victim of social engineering; over 500,000 client records stolen, deleted from server, and dumped publicly
Why hack when you can socially engineer employees into giving you the keys to the kingdom? Client management billing platform WHMCS reports that hacker group UGNazi successfully socially engineered their web hosting firm into providing the hackers with admin credentials. The hackers then proceeded to acquire their data, delete it, and dump it. The attack…
whmcs.com hacked, 1.7GB Data Leaked By #UGNazi
One of the most well known billing and support systems for website control systems WHMCS (whmcs.com) has been hacked and as a result a heap of data has been obtained and leaked. The attack comes from #UGNazi @UG twitter account as well as the hacked WHMCS Twitter account which has been used to announce that it…
1.7GB leaked from the Bureau of Justice By @planethacks
As reported a bit earlier today @planethacks had made an announcement that #MMM Mail Mayhem Monday was on its way in the form of 1.7gb of data that had been obtained during a hack on the Bureau of Justice website https://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/. The leaked data comes in torrent format and it seems there was some seeding issues at…
1.7gb Bureau of Justice Data Obtained by @planethacks for #MMM
MMM aka #MondayMailMayhem is said to have a fairly large leak of data coming some time today from the American Bureau Of Justice. The announcement of the has come from twitter account @planethacks and the first sign that anything was on its was late yesterday with a tweet stating they are setting up a seed box…
Der Fieser Luftkühlers VW Club dflvwclub.de Hacked by @nrtnz
A German based car clubs website has come under attack from a hacker, who which we have recently been following for their attacks. @nrtnz has dumped the user/admin database on pastebin. the leak contains usernames, emails and encrypted passwords. The site that has been attacked is a VW based car club for the older generation volkswagons that…