I’ve read a number of news stories recently about burglaries of government offices in various African countries. Here’s one from this week, out of Kenya. Barry Salil reports: Business at the Kapsabet law courts was paralysed for most part of yesterday as police investigated theft of computers and documents at the premises. Thieves are reported…
Category: Breach Incidents
UK: York computer hacker, Edward Pearson, jailed for identity fraud
From York Press, an update to a case mentioned previously on this blog: A York computer hacker has been jailed for an ID fraud which affected thousands of people and could have netted him £834,000. Southwark Crown Court was told how Edward Pearson, 23, used internet viruses to gain more than eight million personal details…
3,423 Australian based Credit Cards Leaked
We have just discovered a very large amount of mainly Australian based credit cards that have been obtained from an unknown source by an unknown hacker. The dump which has been posted to oz data centa was posted on pastebin with the following message. Default #[Frech] Australian Hug Cc’s [×3424] Without cvv2 # – Yesterday, 10:45 PM Hello ALL How…
Venezuela Government Under Attack From Various Hackers
Various Hackers have been targeting the Venezuela government over the past few weeks, Its not the first time we have seen attacks on this government and they always seem to come in constant runs then go quiet for a while. so far the attacks have mainly come from jm511 but others have also recently leaked or…
ducatindia.com and 14 other sites hacked and accounts leaked by stennis1
A hacker using the handle stennis1 on pastebin has dumped a few leaks in the past weeks, one being ducatindia which is a IT company that provides a range of different services and based in India. The leaked data was pasted on pastebin and contains just oevr 300 accounts from users and admins of the site.
Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan Hacked by @AnonOpsRomania
@AnonOpsRomania has taken revenge on Afghanistan by attacking the Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan website iec.org.af and leaking database data. In the attack release is a the following message explaining exactly why they have done this. REASON: Due to recent events,"Afghan security forces kill three Nato troops" via TheGuardian https://gu.com/p/36emb/tf Murderers come in many shapes, colors and religions, Anonymous…