From LeakedSource: Shortly after the hack of MuslimMatch.com, Shadi.com another dating site was hacked around July 10th, 2016. LeakedSource has obtained and added a copy of this data to its ever-growing searchable repository of leaked data. This data set contains 2,035,020 records. Each record contains an email address and one password. Passwords were stored with no…
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Islam-based #EscortsOffline campaign continues to leak users’ data
For about one year now, I’ve been covering the hacktivism of a self-identified Moroccan hacker known as ElSurveillance (@ElSurveillance on Twitter). Other media outlets have been starting to pay more attention to him recently, too. As he had explained to me in December, ElSurveillance defaces and hacks sites advertising escort services or that have adult themes for…
Chinese businessman gets nearly 4 years in prison for US hacking case
Updating a case originally reported in March. Steven Musil reports: A Chinese businessman has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for conspiring to hack the computer systems of Boeing and other US defense contractors to steal military technical data. Su Bin, a Chinese national and the owner of a Chinese aviation technology company, was sentenced…
CA: Peninsula Dry-Cleaner Facing 8 Years In Prison for ID Theft, Fraud: Prosecutors
Patch reports: An owner of a Menlo Park dry cleaning business is facing up to eight years in state prison after pleading no contest Friday to numerous charges of felony identity theft and fraud, prosecutors said. Edwin Smith, the 64-year-old owner of Menalto Cleaners, accepted a plea deal that dropped many of the 40 felony…
Not our data, not our server – Amazon Kindle denies hacker’s claims
Jason Murdock reports: Online giant Amazon has hit back at claims that a hacker was able to steal over 80,000 user records belonging to Kindle users from one of its servers. On 8 July, a hacker using the pseudonym 0x2Taylor posted a link on Twitter to a data dump that appeared to consist of thousands…
Ukrainian Hacker Hacks Polish Telecom Giant Netia; Leaks Massive Data
Waqas writes: A Ukrainian hacker going by the handle of Pravy Sektor has breached the servers of Poland’s telecom company Netia SA and stole a massive trove of data a couple of days ago and posted it for public access on an underground forum. Netia SA has acknowledged that netia.pl faced a cyber attack from the hackers but…