Wailin Wong reports: Chicago jeweler C.D. Peacock has sued a suburban information-technology consulting firm, alleging that the company’s negligence allowed hackers to access confidential customer financial data. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Cook County Circuit Court. According to C.D. Peacock’s complaint, it hired Oak Brook-based BridgePoint Technologies for IT-related services in August 2009. In…
Category: Breach Incidents
Economic Development Association Scotland Hacked and Data Leaked by Epoch
A hacker going by the handle of Epoch has hacked and now leaked a bunch of accounts from the The Economic Development Association (Scotland) edascot.org.uk. In the release Epoch states they attempted to notify and fix this exploit and they have failed to do so and as a result Epoch has now leaked the data. This should come as…
Hacker attacks restaurant supplier and alternative dispute resolution center
A hacker known as Visi0nZ has dumped 307 customers’ data from Andy Catering Equipment Ltd. in London: first and last names, e-mail and postal addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and plain-text passwords. The hack was revealed on Monday. RSI’s Court ADR Resource Center was also attacked on Monday. The names, postal addresses, phone and…
Couple of Sites hacked and defaced by Saadi and Hax.r00t
Over the past few weeks we have missed hundreds if not thousands of defacements by well known hackers so now its time to get bacjk into it. content/images/gallery/random3/hacked-by-hax-r00t-pakistani-hacker.png Saadi and Hax.r00t have taken down 4 Argentina based websites and left them with some music and nice message letting them know they have been breached. the site:…
TeaMp0isoN Hacks Syrian Military Accounts
TeaMp0isoN teamed up Anonymous earlier in the week to expose Syrian emails; out of that came an 80 MB dump by Phantom~, with help from AnonOps Sweden. Together they leaked the dump of Syrian Military and bank accounts at approximately 14:00 GMT today. Along with the following statement: Last few days I was looking at…
macforbeginners.com hacked and data leaked by xdev @ b4lc4nh4ck
xdev has left a mac tutorial based website ashamed today after hacking it and dumping a load of accounts on paste.bin. The target, macforbeginners.com is a privately owned website that offers help for people starting out with macs, but really they should be looking for help themselves to better protect there clients information. The leak…