Bethesda has revealed that its website was hacked over the weekend. Personal data, such as user names, email addresses and passwords, may have been taken in the attack. Credit card and personal financial information was stressed to have not been compromised. “Over the past weekend, a hacker group attempted an unlawful intrusion of our websites…
Category: Hack
(follow-up) Ireland to extradite “Boards.ie hacker”?
Back in January 2010, this blog lined to a report that Boards.ie had been hacked. Irish tech lawyer and professor TJ McIntyre notes that additional information on the breach was subsequently published on Boards.ie and the following month, The Sunday Times reported: The hacker has already used stolen passwords and email addresses to access credit…
Epic Games Gets Hacked
It seems like everyone these days are getting their sites hacked and their data compromised. Just yesterday we did a post about Codemasters getting hit in a fresh attack by hackers and yesterday afternoon I received this email from Epic Games: Our Epic Games web sites and forums were recently hacked. After some downtime, they’re back up…
Conduct unbecoming: Signing up for a porn site with a .mil addy? Seriously, folks?
The group of hackers at LulzSecurity.com had more fun today, it seems. I’m not reproducing their data here, but they posted unredacted emails and passwords of individuals who signed up for a porn site.. A few of them were from .gov or .mil domains and there were 18 from .edu domains: Hi! We like porn…
(In)security update: Arrests in Sony hacking, plus Acer breach
Levi Sumagaysay writes: Spain has arrested three people in connection with hacking Sony’s PlayStation Network. According to the Wall Street Journal, Spanish police say the three are members of hacker group Anonymous, which has recently claimed responsibility for various attacks on companies such as MasterCard and Visa, as well as Sony. (Although Anonymous has said it was…
UK: Codemasters.com hacked, personal info may have been acquired
Seen at http://m0unds.net/files/breach/codemasters.html via @m0unds: Subject: Important information regarding your account From: “Codemasters” Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:27:25 -0000 To: [email protected] On Friday 3rd June, unauthorised entry was gained to our Codemasters.com website. As soon as the intrusion was detected, we immediately took codemasters.com and associated web services offline in order to prevent any…