The message on the first Pastebin post said: Toshiba HACKED BY V0iD DATABASE LEAK: 16% More To Come…. What followed was a list of 11 admins’ email addresses from the TACP database with associated plaintext passwords and ID number. The admin with superuser status was noted. There were also 333 users’ email addresses and plaintext…
Category: Hack
Monsanto hacktivists dump some data as they ramp up
A press release posted to Pastebin yesterday read: Over the last 2 months we have pushed the exposure of hundreds of pages of articles detailing Monsanto’s corrupt, unethical, and downright evil business practices. We’ve created a nice go-to reference guide on piratepad/anonpad(anonpad.org/opmonsanto, backed up elsewhere), where anyone can read up on and add their own…
German police hacked, suspect tracking data stolen
Darren Paul reports on another hack revealed last week: Usernames, passwords, and coordinates stolen in data haul. Hackers have broken into the German Federal Police and swiped location data used to track suspects. The attack launched by the left-wing n0-N4m3 Cr3w hacking group compromised a server used by the country’s customs service. It then published…
Stevens Institute of Technology hacked; user data dumped
Another hack by #AntiSec, this time the New Jersey-based Stevens Institute of Technology. 31 first and last names, usernames, passwords (plaintext!) and email addresses exposed on Pastebinon July 7. And in many cases, the passwords are identical to the simple usernames. Not good. I emailed Stevens over the weekend to ask them about the breach…
Anonymous Leaks 90,000 Military Email Accounts in Latest #AntiSec Attack on Booz Allen Hamilton (updated)
Sam Biddle reports: Booz Allen Hamilton is a massive American consulting firm that does a substantial amount of work for the Pentagon. This means they’ve got a lot of military business on their servers—which Anonymous hacked. Today they’ve leaked it. The leak, dubbed ‘Military Meltdown Monday,’ includes 90,000 logins of military personnel—including personnel from US…
If you were a customer of Geoff Gray Corporation, your breach notification letter may be in the mail
Financial services provider Geoff Gray Corporation notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office this week of a “potential security breach” that occurred sometime between June 9th – when one of their servers was working properly and accessible – and June 14, when they were notified that the server wasn’t accessible. Their July 5th letter states that…