Jeff Goldman reports: A 19-year-old student at Atlanta’s Booker T. Washington High School was recently suspended for seven days for stealing his father’s user name and password in order to change 18 fellow students’ attendance and course assignment records in exchange for money — the student’s father is a counselor at the school. The students…
Category: Hack
Four Irish, British suspects helped Stratfor hack: U.S.
I updated specific incident reports on DataLossDB.org yesterday, but thought I should mention this here, too. Basil Katz of Reuters reports: Federal prosecutors said four Irish and British men charged in a crackdown on the international hacking group Anonymous also helped breach the security analysis company Stratfor last year. In an indictment made public on…
Hackers Threaten University of Pittsburgh with Disclosure of Students’ Personal Info if Demands Are Not Met
Jacob Kleinman reports: Members of the hacktivist collective calling itself “Anonymous” are targeting the University of Pittsburgh, and threatening to release a wealth of private information regarding the school and its students, if the University does not “apologize to your students, law enforcement, and professors on your home page of your domain for a duration…
700 US Govt staff details hacked
Although recent arrests cut down on the number of hacks and data dumps I’m seeing posted online, they haven’t eliminated them altogether. The attack on the International Police Association – International Administration Center, reported last week, was the type of attack we’ve seen in the past. And now this one on NASA’s Glenn Research Center: Home…
Hackers demand EUR150K ‘idiot tax’ from Dexia in return for stolen customer data
A group claiming to have hacked a Dexia Bank subsidiary’s database is threatening to post sensitive customer information unless it receives an “idiot tax” of EUR150,000 by Friday. In a pastebin statement addressed to the media, the unnamed group says it has “downloaded extensive confidential customer information” from servers belonging to Elantis, a mortgage and consumer credit…
Global Payments breach went on for at least 8 months – revised estimate
Brian Krebs has an update on the Global Payments breach: A hacker break-in at credit and debit card processor Global Payments Inc. dates back to at least early June 2011, Visa and MasterCard warned in updated alerts sent to card-issuing banks in the past week. The disclosures offer the first additional details about the length of the breach since Global Payments…