It looks like TeaMp0isoN’s been busy again. This time it’s the Time Warner Cable Business Class Managed Security Solutions portal that got hacked with the following defacement left as a message: The @TeaMp0sioN Twitter account announced the breach by Pseudo, Militis, Jimmy, and MLT on Sunday afternoon, followed shortly by a data dump consisting of 4,191 records containing…
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UK: IS hackers attack solar energy firm
BBC reports: Hackers supporting the Islamic State group launched an attack on a small solar energy company in Sussex with just 11 members of staff. The so-called Caliphate Cyber Army (CCA) said it took down the Solar UK site in revenge for a drone strike which killed Junaid Hussain, a British hacker in Syria. It later…
University of California – Berkeley alerting 80,000 to December hack involving SSN or bank account info (UPDATE1)
From the University of California – Berkeley: UC Berkeley officials are sending alert notices to approximately 80,000 current and former faculty, staff, students and vendors following a criminal cyberattack on a system storing their Social Security or bank account numbers. The campus has no evidence that any unauthorized individual actually accessed, acquired or used any…
IRS “Get Transcript” breach much bigger than first thought – now more than 700K victims
Andrew Taylor of AP reports: The IRS says the number of taxpayers whose tax information may have been stolen by computer hackers now exceeds 700,000 — more than double the agency’s previous estimate. The tax collecting agency says 390,000 more taxpayer accounts may have compromised than the 334,000 it warned about a year and a…
Anonymous: Turkish government cracks down on Twitter ‘hacktivists’ over leak of police data
Jason Murdock reports: The Turkish government has retaliated against a number of Twitter profiles that posted links to a compromised database stolen from a national police server. The users, which includes two Anonymous-affiliated accounts, sent out notifications to millions of followers containing a direct link to a huge 17.8GB-sized trove of sensitive data earlier this month. One…
U. Central Florida facing second lawsuit over data breach
If one lawsuit is good, two is better, right? Gabrielle Russon reports: A former UCF men’s basketball team manager who claims his bank account was drained has filed the second lawsuit this month over a computer hack where 63,000 Social Security numbers from former and current students and employees were stolen. UCF’s handling of people’s…