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Category: Hack
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…
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…