Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: One of the “teenage hackers” who broke into the CIA director’s AOL email account last year hasn’t given up targeting government intelligence officials. His latest victim is the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Motherboard has learned. A group of hackers calling themselves “Crackas With Attitude” or CWA made headlines in October, hacking into…
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Numerous Cambodian sites defaced and hacked by Cyber TeamRox
Mech Dara and Daniel de Carteret report: A group of online hackers calling themselves Cyber TeamRox have breached several local websites over the past two days, including those of the Cambodian Navy, AEON Microfinance and Build Bright University. In what appears to be a random selection of targets, a hacker with the group using the alias Harith101,…
OR: Possible data breach by militia concerns Fish & Wildlife
Colin Miner reports: A data breach by militia at the Malheur Wildlife National Refuge has led the US Fish and Wildlife Service to ask some of its employees to relocate from their homes until the situation is resolved, sources told KOIN 6 News. While Ammon Bundy has told reporters that his group has not accessed computer files, a reporter…
Interxion suffers security breach, customer contact details exposed
Graham Cluley reports: European data center services giant Interxion is informing customers that it has suffered a security breach, which has seen hackers access contact information stored in its CRM about corporate clients and prospects. In an email seen by this website, and sent to affected customers this weekend, the company explained that it became…
26-year-old Turkish hacker sentenced to record 334 years in prison for ID theft, bank fraud
If you thought our federal prosecutors over-charge under the CFAA and/or seek unreasonable prison terms for hacking, read this story in the Daily Sabah: … Onur Kopçak was sentenced Sunday to 135 years in prison for stealing 11 people’s credit card information and selling it to other cyber criminals. With this new sentence approved by the…
Car Breathalyzer FIrm Gets Hacked, Internal Docs Dumped on Dark Web
Joseph Cox reports: Earlier this week, a hacker called ROR[RG], who acts as the moderator of the recently re-booted Hell hacking forum, dumped supposed internal documents of LMG Holdings, and more specifically, at least one of the companies it owns, “LifeSafer,” which describes itself on its website as “the nation’s leader in ignition interlock technology.” […] The data itself…