Express News Service reports: The website of the Hinjewadi Industries Association (HIA) was hacked on Tuesday morning. Confirming it, Anil Patwardhan, president of the HIA, said, “The association had disabled the website for the last week or so in view of the upgradation work. We got to know about the hacking Tuesday morning. We would…
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LitecoinTalk Breach Details Scarce
I have no idea what happened four days ago, even after reading the subreddit, but it looks like litecointalk.org is down. Anyone have additional details? Merkle reports: A worrying announcement was posted on the Litecoin subreddit yesterday, as it turns out unidentified assailants have compromised the LitecoinTalk forums. All users had to reset their passwords…
Two teens arrested for hacking hundreds of key Instagram users to scam others
Tim Ring reports: Dutch police have arrested two teenagers suspected of hacking hundreds of influential Instagram users and exploiting their tens of thousands of followers. […] The 18 and 19 year-old males – from towns near Rotterdam and The Hague – are accused of stealing the passwords from key Instagram account holders, who may be…
GhostShell, On the Record – If You Knew Then What You Know Now….
This post is part of an extended interview conducted by DataBreaches.net and CyberWarNews.info with the hacker formerly known as “GhostShell.” We asked GhostShell to look back and tell us if he would do anything differently. Here was part of his answer: if I could invent the time machine I would go back, never join Anonymous,…
GhostShell, On the Record – Difficulty Finding Work and Risk of Arrest
This post is part of an extended interview conducted by DataBreaches.net and CyberWarNews.info with the hacker formerly known as “GhostShell.” How did GhostShell avoid arrest for so many years? Was his OpSec that good, or is Romanian law enforcement a bit uninterested? We asked him how it is that he was never identified or arrested. On one…
GhostShell, On the Record – Psychological Factors
This post is part of an extended interview conducted by DataBreaches.net and CyberWarNews.info with the hacker formerly known as “GhostShell.” In “Dark Hacktivism,” GhostShell wrote, “Always remember to play the part of a normal human being,” We asked whether he felt he was playing the part and about his other comments in Dark Hacktivism on psychological…