In May, DataBreaches.net began coverage of the prosecution of three men affiliated with Anonymous in Australia. The first, Mathew Hutchison (a/k/a, “Rax”) was charged with incitement and was sentenced in August to a two-year community corrections order and community service. A second youth, known online as “Juzzy” or “Absantos,” among other aliases, had also been…
Category: Hack
In: Class 12 student finds Gauhati University website highly insecure, says can be hacked through phone
Guwahati writes; While surfing for similar vulnerability, the information security enthusiast also managed to find flaws in the content management system of a political party’s website. Rony Das, a class XII student of Bongaigaon Railway HS School hacked into the servers of the Gauhati University website through his Android phone in December last year and…
MoD-founded firm Niteworks loses login creds of UK defence folk
Alexander J. Martin reports: Exclusive Terrible infosec practices at Niteworks, the MoD-established business networking organisation, have led to unknown attackers gaining email addresses and passwords of British defence community members. An email seen by The Register, sent to Niteworks’ network members, confessed that “the database holding the login information for the members’ area in the niteworks.net website…
KR: KAIST students’ credit card information stolen
Kim Se-jeong reports: More than a dozen students and faculty at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology (KAIST) have had their credit card information stolen by a hacker who attempted to make payments in Japan, according to the school, Thursday. The school said that the number of victims was about 20, but the number…
UK: Hacker jailed for eight months after attacking police, council, charity and porn websites
Liverpool Echo reports: A jobless computer hacker was jailed today for eight months after launching a mass cyber attack on The Met Police, Tory Party and British Airways websites – from his bedroom in his parents’ house. Ian Sullivan, 51, flooded the internet servers for police forces, councils, charities and even porn sites as part…
AU: TAFE hack: Student ‘sex assault and bullying’ details hacked in IT breach
Amy Remeikis reports that despite early assurances from the government that all information was “low-level,” the TAFE breach (noted previously on this blog) included some sensitive information such as sex assault and bullying complaints: “However, in relation to records deemed to be of a more sensitive nature, the department needed to contact 16 people to alert…