Anand Narayanaswamy reports: Hacking is not an easy task but for Himalaya Mohanty, a 19-year old student currently pursuing his ITI course in Odisha, it was just a fun which turned into nightmare. Mohanty allegedly hacked into the EPABX of a private company in the city using his own mobile phone, which resulted in financial…
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I can’t even…
The headline in the Daily Mail basically says it all: British teenager hacks North Korea’s newly-launched Facebook site after guessing the login and password were set to ‘admin’ and ‘password’ Well almost all. Note that this is not Facebook’s site but a Facebook clone called phpDolphin. Even so…
WA: Northshore School District students receive emails with inappropriate messages
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….
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…