Tetch Torres-Torres reports: Members of Anonymous Philippines trooped to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday and called for the release of their member currently in detention and facing charges for defacing the Commission on Elections (Comelec) website last March. Clad in Guy Fawkes masks, the group said Paul Z. Biteng should be released from…
Category: Hack
Qatar National Bank confirms limited hack, reassures customers
I’ve been keeping an eye out to see if the Qatar National Bank would confirm claims that they had been hacked. Now they have. From their web site: Doha, 1 May, 2016 – QNB Group’s Risk Team monitored abnormal activity in our system environment, this was immediately communicated to relevant authorities. We also took immediate steps…
Verifier web site allows you to check to see if your data were in the QNB data dump
The concept of web sites that allow you to check to see if your data were caught up in a hack and data dump really took off after Troy Hunt opened HaveIBeenPwned.com. Now there’s a site that allows you to check to see if your data were caught up in the Qatar National Bank (QNB) data…
Some Users of InnerChef Had Info Hacked and Leaked
Siriam Sharma reports: An anonymous hacker has been able to infiltrate food delivery startup InnerChef‘s servers, and has leaked a partial list of names, phone numbers, and email addresses used at registration to demonstrate the exploit. Gadgets 360 confirmed the data breach by calling and verifying three of the phone numbers provided in the list…
Millions of User Accounts for Streaming App ’17’ Hacked and Up for Sale
Joseph Cox reports: A hacker is advertising a cache of email addresses, poorly secured passwords, phone numbers, and other information from users of photo sharing and video streaming app ’17’, which is particularly popular in Asia. The data is being sold on The Real Deal, a dark web market that specialises in stolen information and computer exploits. The data…
Philippines election hackers taunt ‘find us if you can’ as second suspect is arrested
Jason Murdock reports: Law enforcement authorities in the Philippines have arrested a second suspect in relation to the hack and defacement of the country’s electoral commission, that resulted in the loss of up to 55 million voter records. In a press conference held on 29 April, Andres Bautista, the chairperson of the Commission on Elections…