Emma Whitford reports: Last night at 9:00 p.m., New York magazine’s website published a cover story that had thousands of shares within an hour—a project 6 months in the making, it compiles the stories and portraits of 35 of the 46 women who have publicly alleged that Bill Cosby raped or sexually assaulted them. Early this morning, the entire…
Category: Hack
Hackers attack Planned Parenthood, release some employee data
William Turton reports: Planned Parenthood has been hacked. Late Sunday night, a group of hackers who oppose the healthcare nonprofit’s abortion practices released Planned Parenthood’s website databases as well as names and email addresses of the organization’s employees. The attack on Planned Parenthood follows a storm of controversy over the organization. Anti-abortion activists sparked the uproar…
Anonymous hacks census.gov; leaks non-sensitive info
Here’s another breach from last week that was sitting in the drafts folder because, well, I’m old, I forget. Census.gov was hacked by Anonymous, whose claimed motivation was “#TPP #TTIP” (Trans-Pacific Partnership, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership). Ali Raza reports: A hacktivist group, which refers to itself as Anonymous, has claimed that the United States Census Bureau…
TV5Monde in chaos as data breach costs roll into the millions
Just because a hack is no longer in the news, it doesn’t mean it still isn’t having a major impact on its target. The TV5Monde hack was apparently much more damaging than some of us had imagined at the time. Doug Drinkwater reports: TV5Monde was very visibly hacked back in April when the French news channel, which…
Steam Hit by Major Security Breach, Many Accounts Hacked
Steam (Valve), who has had a number of data breaches over the years – including one that impacted 35 million users – seems to have had another breach. Arash Fekri reports: Reports are still blurry and information keeps coming out – Valve themselves are yet to make an official statement on the issue – but according to…
AU: University Of Queensland logins leaked by “Nightmare Squad”
It appears the University of Queensland has either been hacked by “Nightmare Squad” or the group leaked some data that was easy to find. @NightmareSquad describes themselves as an “#Anonymous blackhat team fighting for the people of South America.” Their Twitter account has recently announced a number of hacks in Brazil, including some government sites. I tweeted them an…