Janet Kim reports: The Northshore School District is updating parents that student’s emails were not hacked, instead were spammed after first warning parents that an outsider gained access to student emails. Now students are locked out of their emails with just weeks left in the school year, as the district investigates this serious security breach….
Category: Hack
Hackers Stole 65 Million Passwords From Tumblr, New Analysis Reveals
Lorenzo Franceschai-Bicchierai reports: On May 12, Tumblr revealed that it had just found out about a 2013 data breach affecting “a set” of users’ email addresses and passwords, but the company refused to reveal how many users were affected. As it turns out, that number is 65 million, according to an independent analysis of the data. Troy…
Pakistan’ Real Estate Giant Zameen.com Hacked, Entire Database Leaked
Waqas writes: A Bangladeshi hacker going with the handle of Tiger Mate has hacked and defaced one of Pakistan’s largest real estate websites Zameen.com. That’s not all, the hacker has also leaked the site’s entire database online for public access. The hacker left a deface with a note stating ”hacked by Tiger Mate,” his Twitter…
NY: Holley Central School District investigates possible hacking
WHAM reports: The Holley Central School District Superintendent Robert D’ Angelo tells 13WHAM a server containing past and present staff data has been hacked. “As soon as we learned of this, the portal through which the hack may have been made was shut down and additional measures were taken to reduce the possibility of further…
Hackers Claim to Have a Stunning 427 Million Myspace Passwords
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: There’s an oft-repeated adage in the world of cybersecurity: There are two types of companies, those that have been hacked, and those that don’t yet know they have been hacked. MySpace, the social media behemoth that was, is apparently in the second category. The same hacker who was selling the data of more…
Reddit Forced to Reset 100,000 Passwords After ‘Uptick’ In Hacked Accounts
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: After a flurry of hacked accounts, Reddit has been forced to reset the passwords of 100,000 users in two weeks. The company announced it on Thursday, noting that this “general uptick” in account takeovers comes on the heels of large data breaches on other sites, such as the recent leak of more than 100 million…