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…
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The Barbados Advocate defaced by “Muslim Electronic Army”
Nation News reports that The Barbados Advocate’s web site was defaced. Visitors to the site were reportedly greeted with a pop-up message from the “Muslim Electronic Army.” Then in a profanity-laced note, the hackers urged the newspaper to secure the site while singling out the police and government. They said the next target would be www.gov.bb, government’s…
Anonymous claims to leak Paris climate officials’ data (UPDATED)
Cory Bennett reports: The hacker group Anonymous claims to have released the personal log-in details of roughly 1,415 officials at the United Nations climate conference in Paris. The release was apparently done to protest the recent detention of activists during a climate march in Paris on Sunday. Over 200 people were arrested after clashing with…
Reserve Bank of Australia computer network breach blamed on Indonesia
Peter Lloyd reports: The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) believes Indonesia was behind a breach of its computer network two years ago. It is the second report of a cyber attack on a key Australian Government department, after China was blamed earlier today for a breach at the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM). The RBA will not confirm…
After asking bank for $3 million ransom, hacker dumps massive customer financial database
Kevin Collier reports that “Hacker Buba,” the individual who allegedly hacked InvestBank in the UAE, has made good on his threat to dump customer bank data if the bank didn’t pay his extortion demand. The means by which that information was posted is striking. Hacker Buba initially tweeted from accounts like @investbank_2, though those were…
Chinese government has arrested hackers it says breached OPM database
If I knew emojis, I’d include one for “highly skeptical” to accompany this story. Ellen Nakashima reports: The Chinese government recently arrested a handful of hackers it says were connected to the breach of Office of Personnel Management’s database earlier this year, a mammoth break-in that exposed the records of more than 22 million current…