I’ve previously posted info on the Verticalscope breach affecting 45 million. But I never posted their breach announcement. As I was just reviewing it, I noticed their response to the breach with respect to new password requirements. I thought it was a bit different, and should be mentioned here. From the What We Are Doing…
Category: Hack
Hackers Just Leaked Personal Data of US Military Officials and it’s Legit
Waqas writes: Ghost Squad Hackers (GSH) made their entry a few months ago by conducting Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and Black Lives Matter websites. The group then took part in Anonymous‘ linked operation OpIcarus against banking and financial institutions but the latest attack shows the hackers have graduated to a whole new level. Yes, Ghost Squad…
MM: Eleven Media Group hacked; Union of Hacktivists charged
An opinion piece by Nay Htun Naing published on Eleven Media Group’s Daily Eleven web site on June 16 reportedly ticked off some hackers who call themselves “The Hackers Union” (aka “Union of Hacktivists”). So much so, it seems, that they attacked EMG’s site the next day. According to EMG: The Hackers’ Union Facebook page posted that it was…
Hack exposes 1,500 University of Cambridge student and employee passwords
Patrick Howell O’Neill reports: Hackers successfully hit the University of Cambridge’s Cambridge Schools Classics Project website this week, exposing the email addresses and cleartext passwords of over 1,500 students and employees. The contents of the breach were released freely online earlier this week. On Thursday, a University of Cambridge spokesperson confirmed the incident to the Daily Dot….
In: Air India admin staffers’ IDs also hacked
Oh, now this sounds even more serious than the original headlines about flyers’ miles being stolen. The Times of India reports: The crooks who targeted Air India had not just hacked into the frequent flyers’ club but were in control of as many as 24 user IDs of Air India’s programme administration group that was…
No evidence feds tampered with alleged Russian hacker’s computer, judge says
Mike Carter reports the latest development in the federal prosecution of Russian hacker Roman Seleznev: A federal judge has refused to suppress key evidence in the pending trial of accused Russian mega-hacker Roman Seleznev. U.S. District Judge Richard Jones said Seleznev’s accusations that federal agents tampered with his computer — and the dueling opinions of prosecution and…