Speaking of universities getting hacked, Kelly Heyboer reports that multiple attacks on Rutgers University that have resulted in the university investing seriously in preventing the next attack. Heyboer reports, in part: It is unclear if one cyber attacker was responsible for the series of disruptions that knocked Rutgers’ vast computer network offline four times during the 2014-2015 school…
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50,000 AutoZone customers’ data hacked, exposed (update1)
AutoZone, a leading American retailer of auto parts, has reportedly been hacked by @JM511. This afternoon, JM511 announced the hack of the AutoZonePro.com site on Twitter. The linked paste included 49,967 customers’ details: billing addresses (street and city), email addresses, hashed passwords, telephone numbers, customers’ cities, and dates of birth. Although the passwords were hashed, JM511 provided the password…
More American universities hacked by JM511
Well, they can’t say they weren’t warned. The hacker who uses the nick “JM511” has been busy hacking more universities and has dumped some data from the University of California at Los Angeles. In a tweet last night, @JM511 noted that they had been warned twice: You’ve bEEn #warned #2times @UCLA — JM511 Hacker☠ (@JM511) August…
Leaked Ashley Madison emails reveals 2012 hack
Mikael Thalen reports: Leaked emails from Avid Life Media CEO Noel Biderman reveal that a disgruntled user of the online cheating service Ashley Madison hacked hundreds of the site’s user accounts in 2012. […] One such email from Biderman in October of 2012 details how one Ashley Madison user “hacked” multiple accounts and attempted to…
University of Michigan breaks down August social media hack
Katie Penrod reports on some nice transparency by U. Michigan: After several of the University’s official Facebook pages were hacked last week, administrators spent time reflecting on what went wrong. In light of the hack, University of Michigan Social Media, which runs all of the University’s social media accounts, published a case study analyzing the…
Ashley Madison Hackers Speak Out: ‘Nobody Was Watching’
Joseph Cox of Motherboard got the exclusive interview of the week – with Impact Team, the hackers behind the AshleyMadison.com hack. Here’s a snippet of the email interview: MOTHERBOARD: How did you hack Avid Life Media? Was it hard? The Impact Team: We worked hard to make fully undetectable attack, then got in and found nothing…