The minecraftpeforum.net domain has recently expired, but before it expired, it seems it was hacked. @rmsg0d, a member of TeaMp0isoN, dropped their forum’s database containing 16,125 records with userids, usernames, password, salt, loginkey, e-mail addresses, and numerous other fields relating to forum participation. In some cases, users seems to have actually provided their birthdates. Because the…
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High schooler allegedly hired third party to DDoS his school district
See? This is what happens when you don’t teach students how to hack. They have to hire someone. Lisa Vaas reports: A 17-year-old high school boy may face state and federal charges for allegedly having paid a third party to launch a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that crippled the West Ada school district…
Vietnam’s Ministry of Justice attacked by hackers, ‘important’ data stolen
Thai Son reports: The Ministry of Justice has become the latest victim of ransomware attacks in Vietnam. Several computers connected to the ministry’s network have been infected with the malware, having many “important” data encrypted by hackers who would destroy all the documents, unless they got paid, the department of information technology under the ministry…
Feds and cops outed as hacker dump exposes ties to adult-dating site
And so it begins… RT reports: The men behind the screen names “Eaglesfan_6969” and “Verywilling2011” are looking for sex, and they’re doing it from government-provided email accounts, according to data pilfered from a hacked dating website. A trove of personal information pertaining to paid account holders of AdultFriendFinder, a website that touts itself as letting…
Yemen Cyber Army data dump contains wealth of personal and government information
Lee Johnstone of cyberwarnews.info (@Cyber_War_News) has analyzed some of the massive amount of Saudi government data dumped by the Yemen Cyber Army and has kindly shared his findings with DataBreaches.net. In their statement, the Yemen Cyber Army (YCA) wrote: We have gained access to the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) network and have full control…
Indiana hacker faces sentencing in $100 million scheme
Kristine Guerra reports on the case of Austin Alcala, a case reported previously on this site: A young man from McCordsville accused in what federal authorities described as an international and multimillion-dollar hacking scheme is facing sentencing after pleading guilty to a conspiracy charge. Austin Alcala, a graduate of Fishers High School, is one of three suspects charged…