David Collins of The Mirror reports: A teenager hacked into his school’s “secure” database and posted pupils’ disciplinary records on Facebook. Lewis Blessed, 15, was suspended from classes for nine days after revealing confidential staff comments about children who had misbehaved. But his mum Andrea, 43, says the school over-reacted – because her son simply…
Category: Breach Incidents
Hackers Compromise U Of Arkansas Computer Store Records (updated to include affected U. Maine and U. Rochester)
Hackers broke into a Maine-based computer server and exposed credit card records of more than 1,000 customers at the University of Arkansas Computer Store, school officials said Thursday. The school discovered Tuesday the breach could affect as many as 1,007 computer store customers who made online transactions during the past four years. University officials continue…
TeaMp0isoN’s MLT Arrested & Claims responsibility to 1400+ offences
LONDON — Police have arrested a 17-year-old suspected spokesman for Team Poison, a hacking group that has claimed responsibility for a series of high-profile cyber-attacks. The boy was arrested on Wednesday in Newcastle in connection with alleged computer misuse offences, London’s Metropolitan Police said. "The suspect, who is believed to use the online ‘nic’ (nickname)…
Plaxo online address book service warns of security breach
Online address book service Plaxo has confirmed that an unknown malicious third-party gained access to the company’s API connection to Google’s address book and calendar. As a result of the security breach, Google took precautionary measures and temporarily disabled the connection, and sent Google account holders a “Suspicious sign in prevented” email advising them that…
$500,000 bond for stealing trade secrets
SAN JOSE, CA—A federal judge convicted a former Silicon Valley engineer of five counts of theft of trade secrets, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced. Suibin Zhang was found guilty Monday of three counts of theft and copying of trade secrets for downloading the trade secrets from a secure database, one count of duplication of…
2 teens arrested for ddos attacks
Over the last few hours the main media has been going fairly nuts over the two teens who have been arrested for carrying out ddos attacks. Now while its still very early to say but the norway police claim the two who are 18 and 19 are main players in the recent attacks on SOCA, Norway’s…