Yesterday, and as previously noted on this site, 173,891 breached accounts from PHP Freaks forum were dumped. Last night, @Cyber_War_News tweeted that approximately 1 million accounts from the 000webhosting hack had shown up on the dark web. It’s a reasonable bet that the 12+million other accounts will also show up. This morning, @haveibeenpwned tweeted that 620,677 accounts…
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PHP Freaks forum database hacked
If you don’t bother to read the TOS and policies before you sign up for a site, you may find that there is no way out. Today’s example from PHP Freaks Forum: It has come to our attention that someone managed to get their hands on a database dump of the phpfreaks members table used…
Stolen Netflix logins being traded online, potentially leaving people’s most sensitive information exposed
Andrew Griffin reports: Stolen Netflix logins are being traded across the internet — and could be leaving people’s most personal information exposed. Numerous sites are sharing stolen logins to the video streaming site so that people can watch without paying the usual monthly fee. But since many people use the same login details for a…
Aussie Farmers Direct hacked, user details posted online
Allie Coyne reports: Home delivered groceries business Aussie Farmers Direct has fallen victim to an attack on its systems which has seen the personal details of more than 5000 of its customers posted online. Attackers today posted the names, phone numbers, email addresses and physical addresses for 5149 of Aussie Farmers Direct’s customers. Read more…
First data breach case granted standing in Pennsylvania
Hanna Nakano reports: Standing has been found for the first time in a data breach case in the State of Pennsylvania. U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found standing in claims of injury as a result of data breach in Enslin v. Coca Cola. This is the first time a federal court in…
Second arrest in TalkTalk hack
There’s been a second arrest in the TalkTalk data breach case. And again, it’s a teenager that’s been arrested. Police confirmed that an unnamed male 16-year old from Feltham, West London, was arrested on charges under the Computer Misuse Act. He’s out on bail now. Read more on Bit-Tech. If TalkTalk wants to argue its…