Hannah reports: As if exposing David Beckham’s rants regarding his missed opportunity of knighthood were not enough, hackers demanded almost a million euros from his advisers. According to a report from Mirror, these hackers were believed to be using Russian servers to access files and messages from the database in a sports agency headed by Simon Oliveira,…
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Used government computers bought at auction filled with personal information
The 1980s called…. Scott Noll reports that a KHOU investigation “once again found the City of Houston selling private, personal information through online auctions of used government equipment.” What did they find, you wonder? “On one of the computers, we found a database containing over 100,000 medical records,” explained computer expert Gary Huestis. They do…
Denuvo Website Leaks Secret Information, Crackers Swarm
While the folks at Denuvo are leaders in the field of video game protection, the same cannot be said about their website. In an embarrassing blunder, the company has left some directories and files open to the public and right now members of the cracking community are downloading and scrutinizing the contents. Read more on…
Data from 2014 hack of children’s online game Bin Weevils leaked online; hacker claims 20m records
We’ve seen it before – in fact, we seem to be seeing it a lot recently – data from an old hack first being publicly leaked. This time it’s Bin Weevils, a British online children’s game, owned by 55 Pixels. In September 2014, Bin Weevils posted a note on their site that they had discovered a “vulnerability”…
An Anonymous group just took down a fifth of the dark web
Russell Brandom reported this yesterday (Friday): Visitors to more than 10,000 Tor-based websites were met with an alarming announcement this morning: “Hello, Freedom Hosting II, you have been hacked.” A group affiliating itself with Anonymous had compromised servers at Freedom Hosting II, a popular service for hosting websites accessible only through Tor. Roughly six hours…
InterContinental reports payment card breach at 12 U.S. hotels
Reuters reports that Intercontinental Hotels has now confirmed a breach that was first reported by Brian Krebs in December: InterContinental Hotels Group Plc said on Friday that a malware in the servers at 12 of its hotels in the United States tracked payment card data if the card was used at the hotels’ restaurants and…