The Turkish hacktivist collective RedHack claims to have hacked Turkish ISP TTNET as well as mobile operator Vodafone and Turkcell. They announced the hack this afternoon: Customer data of ISP TTNET, mobile operator Vodafone and Turkcell infiltrated and vast amount of data collected from the systems. + — RedHack_EN (@RedHack_EN) February 3, 2014 They also claim…
Category: Business Sector
KR: Insurance firms leak personal data
Kim Rahn reports: Financial authorities have found customer information was leaked from not only credit card companies but also insurance firms. The Financial Services Commission (FSC) said Monday it found Prudential Life Insurance provided clients’ personal information to outsiders by granting them the right to access the firm’s intranet. […] According to the FSC’s recent…
French telecom Orange discloses data breach affecting 800,000 customers
Swati Khandelwal reports: The French multinational telecommunication company announced recently, it was targeted by unknown hackers on 16th January 2014, who allegedly gained access to the accounts of up to 800,000 customers of Orange website. According to a report published on the PCImpact website, the company warned their customers in an email that their Client Area website orange.fr was…
NullCrew attack on Bell Canada was SQL injection and Bell knew weeks ago – NullCrew (update 2)
NullCrew has responded to Bell’s claim that it was a third-party supplier who got hacked by providing DataBreaches.net with more details about the hack and their conversations with Bell alerting them to the breach. In an interview today, NullCrew revealed that they had access to Bell’s server for months, and had disclosed that to them…
Bell Canada statement on NullCrew hack (Update 1)
Bell has issued a press release in response to claims they were hacked by NullCrew: Bell today announced that 22,421 user names and passwords and 5 valid credit card numbers of Bell small-business customers were posted on the Internet this weekend. The posting results from illegal hacking of an Ottawa-based third-party supplier’s information technology system. In…
NullCrew claims to have hacked Bell Canada (Update 1)
Update: Bell Canada did not respond to the email they received from DataBreaches.net, but reportedly did send a statement last night to Canada.com, saying “Bell IT and security teams are investigating the situation and will provide further update tomorrow.” NullCrew is back, and claims to have hacked Bell Canada. In a tweet on January 15, they…