Ben Grubb reports: News Limited has suffered another security breach which has resulted in members receiving spam emails and potentially having their passwords exposed. Taste.com.au, a product of News Limited’s News Magazines, last Friday emailed members to inform them of the breach which “potentially exposed” information about its members via “illegal and unauthorised access to…
Category: Hack
(update) Federal Reserve Bank hacker gets 10 year sentence
Thom Weidlich reports: A Malaysian man who pleaded guilty to conducting a credit-card scheme and who was accused of hacking the Federal Reserve’s computers got a 10-year prison sentence. Lin Mun Poo, 32, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Dora L. Irizarry in Brooklyn, New York. In April, he pleaded guilty to illegally possessing…
Kidney Times hack reveals users’ e-mail addresses and phone numbers
Via Cyber War News, another hack – this one of the Kidney Times user database with 952 email addresses and phone numbers dumped. Lee J of Cyber War News comments on the breach: Well, this would have to be one of the worst sites you could possible target, regardless. Hackers need to stay away from websites adn…
Jefferson County judge issues injunction barring GoDaddy from hosting hacked law enforcement data
Jefferson County, Alabama Sheriff Mike Hale was apparently successful in obtaining an injunction against GoDaddy. As previously reported, GoDaddy has hosted and registered sites that were involved in dumping the personal data of Jefferson County law enforcement employees and their families after hackers went after a number of law enforcement-related web sites. I had thought…
Web site of Sociedad Española de Farmacia Hospitalaria hacked
A hacker or hackers have compromised the usernames and passwords of people registered for the web site of the Sociedad Española de Farmacia Hospitalaria. In some cases, individuals used their e-mail addresses as their logins, raising additional security concerns if they re-use passwords. The data dump by an unidentified hacker contained 1826 unique usernames with clear-text…
Washington South Supervisory Union advises members of serious breach in financial computer system
Washington South Supervisory Union in Northfield, Vermont reports what they describe as a “serious security breach on its financial computer system” that may have compromised members’ personal financial information. By letter dated October 28 to those affected, the Supervisory Union indicated that until matters were resolved, payroll checks would be issued using paper paychecks. The…