Eric Auchard and Tom Käckenhoff report: Technical trade secrets were stolen from the steel production and manufacturing plant design divisions of ThyssenKrupp AG (TKAG.DE) in cyber attacks earlier this year, the German company said on Thursday. “ThyssenKrupp has become the target of a massive cyber attack,” the industrial conglomerate said in a statement. In breaches discovered by the…
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Bahamian man gets five years in U.S. prison for hacking celebrities
Nate Raymond reports: A Bahamian man was sentenced to five years in U.S. prison on Tuesday for hacking into celebrities’ email accounts to steal unreleased film and television scripts, personal information and sexually explicit videos in order to sell them. Alonzo Knowles, who maintained a list of 130 celebrities’ emails and phone numbers, was sentenced…
University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School breach disclosed
Karen Herzog reports: A database within the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School that contained Social Security numbers and name pairs corresponding with 1,213 Law School applicants for 2005-’06 was hacked last month, the university announced Tuesday. The university became aware Nov. 3 that the database had been breached, and sent notices to those affected Dec. 6, offering…
Experian denies that database up for sale on dark web is their data
It was only last week that Experian released a white paper on what it sees as data breach risks for 2017. Perhaps ironically, then, it was only days later when a dark web vendor claimed to have Experian’s database for sale. HackRead reported on “DoubleFlag’s” listing: The hacker claims he has access to the Experian database which contains…
DailyMotion Allegedly Hacked, 85 Million User Accounts Stolen
Catalin Cimpanu reports: An unknown hacker has supposedly breached video sharing platform DailyMotion and stolen details for 87.6 million accounts, belonging to approximately 85 million users, according to data breach index website LeakedSource. LeakedSource, who provides a searchable database of user details leaked in various hacks, has added the DailyMotion stolen data to its search…
Sadly, SQL injection attacks never go out of style – or effectiveness
“Kapustkiy,” a self-described teenager who has been using SQL injection attacks on a number of government sites, today dumped some data from the National Assembly of Ecuador. There were 655 email addresses and passwords in his public paste, although the list contained some duplicates. As he has done in the past, and as he informed this site…