It’s not that often that we find out about extortion attempts related to data breaches, so when we do, I try to follow up on them. Here’s a follow-up to an extortion attempt involving Xavier University that I previously covered on this blog. Kimball Perry reports on a very poorly executed crime: Recently released from…
Category: Breach Incidents
Kr: Samsung Card asks police to investigate employee for data leak
Samsung Card Co., one of South Korea’s largest credit card firms, has asked the police to investigate an employee on charges of leaking the personal data of its customers, an industry source said Monday. According to the source, Samsung Card discovered through an internal investigation that customers’ data including their names and mobile phone numbers…
(Update and Commentary): Why are states withholding the names of breached entities?
Yet another recent press release – this one from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Connecticut – shields the name of the breached entity: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NATASHA SMITH, 25, of Georgia, formerly of Far Rockaway, New York, waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty yesterday,…
400+ Accounts leaked by Herxode
400+ Accounts from an unknown website have been dumped on pastebin, this comes from a hacker calling them selfs Herxode. https://pastebin.com/GPsudYXG
What happened to all the posts and a few site updates
Well today really sucked, Few months ago my host did me a huge favour and changed locations etc; i screwed up and have not been using that for the last 18days or so. From this the old account has now been deleted/disabled along with all backs of databases. Oh Well…. half a month isn’t to…
TEAM T!g3R attack and hack 7 Sri Lanka Government websites, including the army
Earlier today TEAM T!g3R dumped a few databases and with images and information from a bunch of Sri Lanka government websites. These sites are the army, micro finance, lawnet, nsf, Port authority, Business Online, Sunday times. This shows the range of sites that hackers will go for, pretty much anything that has a exploit or entry point for a hacker…