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…
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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…
Romanian Hacker “Guccifer” Pleads Guilty to Computer Hacking Crimes
As expected: Marcel Lehel Lazar, 44, of Arad, Romania, a hacker who used the online moniker “Guccifer,” pleaded guilty today to unauthorized access to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft. In a statement of facts filed with his plea agreement, Lazar admitted that from at least October 2012 to January 2014, he intentionally gained…
UK man charged over attack on Mumsnet
There’s been an arrest in the attacks on parenting site Mumsnet. Charlie Osborne reports: A British man has been charged in connection to a cyberattack against Mumsnet which knocked the popular parenting website offline. Mumsnet experienced a data breach earlier this year when a hacker broke into the website’s servers and exploited administration privileges to redirect…