While massive hacks in the U.S., stupid remarks by our presidential candidates, and Greece and China’s economies grab the headlines, there are those trying to sound alarms in Canada about hacks/attacks by members of Anonymous. So far, though, their warnings seem to be falling on either incredibly calm or incredibly clueless ears. Attacks by Anonymous in Canada escalated…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Hacking Team Bypassing Google’s Checks Underlines Play Store’s Security Problems
Manish Singh reports: In the aftermath of a mega security breach of Hacking Team, an Italian company consisting of a group of professional hackers, startling revelations continue to pour in. The latest to hit the shore is a loophole in Google Play’s security checks that allowed a malicious app developed by the Hacking Team to find…
Anonymous has long history of activism and controversy
Gordon Hoekstra reports; Anonymous, the group that claimed Sunday it had launched an attack on the RCMP for the shooting of a Dawson Creek man, is a loose affiliation of international hackers that originated in 2003. Since then, it has launched dozens of operations, largely over the Internet, that have targeted child porn websites, supported…
Personal info of 700K is public record
Natasha Lindstrom reports: They didn’t mean to do it. Not the scholarship funds, alumni associations or garden clubs. Not the nonprofit hospitals, union groups or corporate foundation arms. Yet more than 130,000 tax-exempt organizations unwittingly leaked hundreds of thousands of Social Security numbers belonging to unsuspecting board members, donors, employees and college students. […] More…
Loan application data held by AFC Kredieten hacked by Rex Mundi, company responds: Meh, not our customers
Jennifer Baker reports: Hacker collective Rex Mundi has stolen 24,000 financial records from Belgian loan company AFC Kredieten, it claims, and if the company doesn’t pay up before Friday at 8pm, it will publish every loan applicant record in its possession. As proof that they have successfully hacked the company, Rex Mundi has already published…
Is a prosecution in Australia linked to the Lauri Love case in the U.S.?
Is a young man’s prosecution in Australia somehow connected to hacking charges filed against Lauri Love in the U.S.? It may be. This is Part 2 of a series, “Three men affiliated with Anonymous Australia facing jail time.” Part 1 described the case of Mathew Hutchison (“Rax”). In this part, DataBreaches.net looks at the prosecution of “Absantos,” whose…