Graham Cluley writes: A London court heard this morning how 18-year-old Jake Davis allegedly had the login passwords of 750,000 people on his computer when he was arrested in the Shetland Islands last week. Davis is suspected by the authorities of being “Topiary”, the public face of the Anonymous and LulzSec hacktivist groups. According to…
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UK: Personal data of those who signed up for contests on The Sun stolen in last month’s hack and posted online
Stewart Mitchell reports: Personal details of thousands of Sun readers have been posted online following the hack attack on News International last month. The paper’s parent company News International sent out warning letters to readers explaining that compromised information could have been posted online in the wake of the 19 July attack. […] “Details vary, but could…
Kr: Nate, Cyworld users pursue class action amid identity theft fears
Kim Yoo-chul reports: The situation can’t get any worse for SK Communications, the operator of Cyworld and Nate, following a hacking attack that compromised the personal information of 35 million of its customers. Stock prices of the Internet unit of the telecommunications giant SK Telecom plummeted. Officials admitted that the recent data loss may taint…
Miley Cyrus hacker pleads guilty to federal charges
Brandon Gee reports: A 21-year-old who once bragged of hacking Miley Cyrus’ email and MySpace accounts told a federal judge today that he is addicted to the Internet and pleaded guilty to charges of credit card fraud and hacking. Josh Holly was not charged for hacking Cyrus’ accounts and publishing racy photos he found in…
AU: Credit card details hacked at Horsham business
Police at Horsham, in the state’s west, say the computer system of a Horsham business has been hacked and people’s credit card details stolen. For legal reasons, police are not identifying which business had its computer remotely accessed. There have now been 60 complaints of unauthorised use of cards from the Wimmera Mallee, but police…
#AntiSec/Anonymous claims to have compromised 77 law enforcement-related web sites and acquired personal information of 7,000 officers
The Hacker News reports that #AntiSec has attacked 77 law enforcement-related web sites. According to a statement posted yesterday on Pastebin by AnonymousIRC: Time for us to conduct a raid of our own. In retaliation to the unjust persecution of dozens of suspected Anonymous “members”, we attacked over 70 US law enforcement institutions defacing their websites and…