Levi Winchester and Nick Gutteridge report that a 20-year old man from Staffordshire has become the third person arrested in connection to the TalkTalk breach. It’s not clear from the reporting whether either or both of the two teens previously arrested provided information to the Metropolitan Police that led to this arrest. Read more on…
Category: Hack
Nearly 2,000 Vodafone customers ‘open to fraud’ after data breach
From Belfast Telegraph: Nearly 2,000 Vodafone customers are “open to fraud” after hackers accessed their personal details, the company has revealed. The mobile phone giant said 1,827 accounts had been breached, potentially providing criminals with customers’ names, mobile numbers, bank sort codes and the last four digits of their bank accounts. Read more on Belfast…
Data, data everywhere…
Yesterday, and as previously noted on this site, 173,891 breached accounts from PHP Freaks forum were dumped. Last night, @Cyber_War_News tweeted that approximately 1 million accounts from the 000webhosting hack had shown up on the dark web. It’s a reasonable bet that the 12+million other accounts will also show up. This morning, @haveibeenpwned tweeted that 620,677 accounts…
PHP Freaks forum database hacked
If you don’t bother to read the TOS and policies before you sign up for a site, you may find that there is no way out. Today’s example from PHP Freaks Forum: It has come to our attention that someone managed to get their hands on a database dump of the phpfreaks members table used…
Stolen Netflix logins being traded online, potentially leaving people’s most sensitive information exposed
Andrew Griffin reports: Stolen Netflix logins are being traded across the internet — and could be leaving people’s most personal information exposed. Numerous sites are sharing stolen logins to the video streaming site so that people can watch without paying the usual monthly fee. But since many people use the same login details for a…
Aussie Farmers Direct hacked, user details posted online
Allie Coyne reports: Home delivered groceries business Aussie Farmers Direct has fallen victim to an attack on its systems which has seen the personal details of more than 5000 of its customers posted online. Attackers today posted the names, phone numbers, email addresses and physical addresses for 5149 of Aussie Farmers Direct’s customers. Read more…