“Rubber” (@smitt3nz on Twitter) has been busy, it seems. Here are just some of the hacks and data dumps posted in that Twitter account over the past few months. 784 users of chickencycles.co.uk had their usernames and passwords hacked and leaked. Some of the passwords were cracked and the cracks provided. 1,710 users of artrookie.co.uk had their usernames, encrypted…
Category: Hack
Tunecore Has Been Hacked, Sensitive Data Revealed, All User Passwords Invalidated
Bruce Houghton reports: Tunecore CEO Scott Ackerman sent an email to all users around midnight on Friday night that their accounts had been hacked three weeks earlier on November 17th. “We recently discovered suspicious activity on TuneCore’s servers in November,” he wrote, “and that on November 17th an individual illegally collected information from our servers.” The data stored…
Settlement Proposed in Maricopa County Community College District Data Breach Litigation
NOTE: Do NOT contact me about this settlement or expect me to help you file a claim or anything. I am just a breach blogger/citizen journalist and advocate, but I am not your advocate. Do NOT post your details in comments, either. Follow the directions on the post card you received or go to http://www.mcccdclassaction.kroll.com and follow…
AU: Pair facing 10 years jail for allegedly hacking student’s Facebook and deleting his uni enrolment data
Ken McGregor reports: A young man and woman who allegedly deleted a student’s university enrolment in five subjects and hacked his Facebook and email accounts face up to a decade in jail if convicted of the cybercrime. Jake Anthony Parker Davis, 21, of Port Noarlunga South, and Sarah Ruqayyah Salah, 22, of Melrose Park, have pleaded…
Anonymous claims hack of police servers, releases case data in #OpSingleGateway
The Bangkok Post reports: Activist hackers from the Anonymous collective are claiming they have again penetrated secure Thai government computers, this time leaking private information from Royal Thai Police servers in a continuing protest against plans for a single internet gateway, which the group maintains have not been scrapped. Read more on Bangkok Post.
UK: JD Wetherspoons discloses breach impacting 656,723 customers
Andrew Griffin reports: Wetherspoon’s has been hacked, potentially putting hundreds of thousands of its customers’ information at risk. The pub company said that 650,000 people might have had their personal details leaked, and that the card details of 100 people had been compromised. […] The stolen personal details of the 650,000 people includes the customer’s…