ARY News reports: A group claiming to be hackers for Islamic State (ISIS) has published a ‘hit list’ of more than 70 US military men who have allegedly been involved in drone strikes against terrorists in Syria. The Sunday Times, a British newspaper, said the hackers have links with Britain and call themselves ‘Islamic State…
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Election fraud feared as hackers target voter records
In the past year, this site has reported on a number of breaches involving voter data: the massive database with 191 million U.S. voters’ data that Chris Vickery uncovered, a second smaller database he uncovered of U.S. voters’ data that included 19 million profiles, a breach involving more than 50 million Turkish citizens, one involving 55 million…
UK: Anger and resignations after Welwyn Hatfield Council security breach
Some people take the security of their email addresses very seriously. Alex Lewis reports: An official at Welwyn Hatfield Council sent a routine email to members of the Borough Panel, a formal consultation group with 510 members, but forgot to “blind copy” it. Consequently, everybody receiving the message, about a draft council tax support scheme…
Philippines election hackers taunt ‘find us if you can’ as second suspect is arrested
Jason Murdock reports: Law enforcement authorities in the Philippines have arrested a second suspect in relation to the hack and defacement of the country’s electoral commission, that resulted in the loss of up to 55 million voter records. In a press conference held on 29 April, Andres Bautista, the chairperson of the Commission on Elections…
#OpAfrica Sees Anonymous Leak 1TB of Data from Kenyan Ministry
Hacked reports: Hactivist collective Anonymous has begun to leak documents from the Kenyan government as a part of a sophisticated operation called #OpAfrica, a campaign aimed to expose the government corruption across Africa. An initial sample of 95 documents revealed via an Anonymous Twitter account and can be accessed via a TOR browser. Hacked reviewed the documents…
In: Hacked Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation website, made lakhs selling fake tickets before CBI got him
Ruchi Dua reports: A man who used to hack train ticket booking website IRCTC to generate fake tickets was arrested from Dakshan Darwaza area in eastern Uttar Pradesh’s Basti town on Thursday by a joint team of the Central Bureau of Investigation and railway’s vigilance department, police said. Hamid was arrested by a team of…