Joseph Cox of Motherboard got the exclusive interview of the week – with Impact Team, the hackers behind the AshleyMadison.com hack. Here’s a snippet of the email interview: MOTHERBOARD: How did you hack Avid Life Media? Was it hard? The Impact Team: We worked hard to make fully undetectable attack, then got in and found nothing…
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Allegations of British Airways data breach denied by airline
It started with Times of India reporting: Delhi Police have detained a hacker and are conducting further raids in connection with alleged hacking into the British Airways’ systems wherein crooks siphoned off millions of “mileage points” worth several millions pounds belonging to its fliers. Scores of fliers complained to the airline of losing their travel…
U. Rhode Island says data breach involves some 3,000 email accounts
John Hill reports: The University of Rhode Island has asked law enforcement officials for help in investigating who hacked into the university’s email accounts records, possibly obtaining the email addresses and passwords to about 3,000 university email accounts, a university spokeswoman said Thursday. Read more on Providence Journal. Related: URI FAQ on incident
Second Ashley Madison data dump, bigger than the first, lays bare their source code
As if it couldn’t get any worse for Avid Life Media, a second data dump has been released on the dark web. This one appears to contain all of CEO Noel Biderman’s emails and the source code for their web sites. As Trusted Sec notes on their blog: if this turns out to be legitimate…
Former U.S. Government Employee Charged in Computer Hacking and Cyber Stalking Scheme
A former locally-employed staff member of the U.S. Embassy in London was charged with engaging in a hacking and cyberstalking scheme in which, using stolen passwords, he obtained sexually explicit photographs and other personal information from victims’ email and social media accounts, and threatened to share the photographs and personal information unless the victims ceded…
NZ Privacy Commissioner warns that republishing AshleyMadison data may violate NZ law
Radio New Zealand reports: Material is emerging on the internet which lists personal data, including thousands of email addresses which appear to belong to New Zealanders. Customer data from the dating site for married people who want to cheat on their spouse was reportedly leaked on the “dark web”, meaning it is accessible only via…