@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…
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militarysingles.com hacked and large amount of data leaked
A dating site directed at military personal, militarysingles.com has been hacked and as a result has had a large amount of data leaked. The leak which comes from LulzSecReborn has the following message. The website https://www.militarysingles.com/ was recently closed day ago or so, so we dumped email dbThere are emails such as @us.army.mil ; @carney.navy.mil ;…
Global Payments confirms data breach (Update 2)
After being named by the Wall Street Journal earlier today, Global Payments Inc. has issued a press release about the breach reported earlier today by Brian Krebs: Global Payments Inc, a leader in payment processing services, announced it identified and self-reported unauthorized access into a portion of its processing system. In early March 2012, the…
Sources: Global Payments breached – Wall Street Journal
Robin Sidel and Andrew R. Johnson report: Global Payments Inc., which processes credit cards and debit cards for banks and merchants, has been hit by a security breach that has put some 50,000 cardholders at risk, according to people with knowledge of the situation. Read more on the Wall Street Journal. Global Payments has not…
Visa statement on payment processor breach
As Brian Krebs made us all aware earlier today, Visa and MasterCard have been notifying financial institutions about a payment processor breach that may affect millions of people. For those who are relatively new to these things, this is not a breach at Visa or MasterCard. It appears to be a breach at an as…
MasterCard, VISA Warn of Processor Breach
Brian Krebs reports: VISA and MasterCard are alerting banks across the country about a recent major breach at a U.S.-based credit card processor. Sources in the financial sector are calling the breach “massive,” and say it may involve more than 10 million compromised card numbers. Read more on KrebsonSecurity. As always, Brian is all over…