From LeakedSource: Shortly after the hack of MuslimMatch.com, Shadi.com another dating site was hacked around July 10th, 2016. LeakedSource has obtained and added a copy of this data to its ever-growing searchable repository of leaked data. This data set contains 2,035,020 records. Each record contains an email address and one password. Passwords were stored with no…
Category: Hack
Suspected Right Sector Hackers Breach Polish Ministry, Demand $50,000
Sputnik News reports: A group of hackers, who portray themselves as members of the Right Sector, an Ukrainian nationalist organization, outlawed in Russia, carried out a cyberattack on the Polish Defense Ministry database and demanded Warsaw to pay $50,000 for the database not to be made public, local media reported on Thursday citing Twitter account of the group. According to Gazeta Wyborcza, the hackers had released a…
Giving new meaning to “School’s Out!”
36 New Zealand schools have had their domain names hacked and put up for sale online for exploitation by spammers. Listen to the story on RadioNZ. I guess this could have been worse in terms of what else could have been stolen?
Islam-based #EscortsOffline campaign continues to leak users’ data
For about one year now, I’ve been covering the hacktivism of a self-identified Moroccan hacker known as ElSurveillance (@ElSurveillance on Twitter). Other media outlets have been starting to pay more attention to him recently, too. As he had explained to me in December, ElSurveillance defaces and hacks sites advertising escort services or that have adult themes for…
Chinese businessman gets nearly 4 years in prison for US hacking case
Updating a case originally reported in March. Steven Musil reports: A Chinese businessman has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for conspiring to hack the computer systems of Boeing and other US defense contractors to steal military technical data. Su Bin, a Chinese national and the owner of a Chinese aviation technology company, was sentenced…
Healthcare Sector Under Attack? Yes.
From a new report by InfoArmor: InfoArmor has identified a group of bad actors performing targeted cyberattacks on healthcare institutions and their IT infrastructure, including connected medical devices such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging systems (MRI), X-ray machines and mobile computing healthcare workstations. This group of bad actors has performed at least four successful attacks against…