Tom LoBianco reports: A prolific Republican super PAC pushing President Donald Trump’s Cabinet took down its website temporarily Monday after hackers got in and retitled sections “Make America S****y Again” and scrawled “Black Lives Matter” across the video section. The 45 Committee — a PAC started by mega-donors Todd Ricketts and Sheldon Adelson — released…
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Verity Health System Notifies Thousands of Patients of Web Site Hack That Began in 2015
So after ignoring a few inquiries from DataBreaches.net requesting information, it appears Verity Health System has now issued a statement about a breach reported to HHS on January 11 as affecting 10,164 patients. Here is their press release: Although there is no evidence that patient information was used in an unauthorized fashion, Verity Health System is notifying…
Hackers demand £1 million from David Beckham’s advisers
Hannah reports: As if exposing David Beckham’s rants regarding his missed opportunity of knighthood were not enough, hackers demanded almost a million euros from his advisers. According to a report from Mirror, these hackers were believed to be using Russian servers to access files and messages from the database in a sports agency headed by Simon Oliveira,…
Data from 2014 hack of children’s online game Bin Weevils leaked online; hacker claims 20m records
We’ve seen it before – in fact, we seem to be seeing it a lot recently – data from an old hack first being publicly leaked. This time it’s Bin Weevils, a British online children’s game, owned by 55 Pixels. In September 2014, Bin Weevils posted a note on their site that they had discovered a “vulnerability”…
A Hacker Just Pwned Over 150,000 Printers Left Exposed Online
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A grey-hat hacker going by the name of Stackoverflowin says he’s pwned over 150,000 printers that have been left accessible online. Speaking to Bleeping Computer, the hacker says he wanted to raise everyone’s awareness towards the dangers of leaving printers exposed online without a firewall or other security settings enabled. Automated script…
An Anonymous group just took down a fifth of the dark web
Russell Brandom reported this yesterday (Friday): Visitors to more than 10,000 Tor-based websites were met with an alarming announcement this morning: “Hello, Freedom Hosting II, you have been hacked.” A group affiliating itself with Anonymous had compromised servers at Freedom Hosting II, a popular service for hosting websites accessible only through Tor. Roughly six hours…