Well back in the land down under, David Cecil the alleged NBN hacker has pleaded guilty to two of the 49 charges he is facing for hacking an ISP and causing no threat or damage at all. In a recent post we showed that the australian police used a full team of armed police to raid an arrest…
Category: Breach Incidents
UK: Probe launched as confidential files appear on Camden Council’s website
The Town Hall is facing a probe by the country’s data protection watchdog after a New Journal investigation found files containing strictly confidential personal information were freely accessible on Camden Council’s website. We alerted the Town Hall to the dangers of publishing uncensored licensing applications on Monday after opening and downloading dozens of the forms….
Dump of accounts from 18eighty.com
@AnonHex has hacked and dumped a bunch of accounts from 18eighty.com, a clothing brand website. the leak contains emails, usernames and CLEAR text passwords. Once again this should be a warning that hackers will target anything that is insecure. Admin you need to get on your game and start earning the money you are paid. https://pastebin.com/hmxJUb1Y
UNICEF Ireland hacked and defaced
Sadly, a hacker going by the name of brwsk007 has gone fairly low and hacked and defaced a UNICEF website. The website that was left defaced was the Irish office, based in Dublin. It shows that hackers will go after any type of website regardless, as long as ti is insecure its a target. content/images/gallery/random2/hacked-by-brwsk007.png View the mirror on zone-h
Former Hacker Charlie Miller, Now Working with DoD on Cyber Security
Charlie Miller, a former black hat hacker who now runs his own company is now also working for the DoD helping out with cyber security. In a recent video released he talks about the ways he works. In 2008 he won a 10,000 prize for being the first to find a critical exploit in a mac air, in 2009 he…
Heartland gets most of banks’ claims dismissed over its massive data breach
Bonnie Barron reports that Heartland Payment Systems succeeded in getting a federal court judge to agree to dismiss most of the claims in a consolidated lawsuit filed by nine banks following a massive breach that affected millions of customers. Rosenthal granted the banks leave to amend the dismissed claims for breach of contract, breach of…