Manuela D’Alessandro of Reuters reports: Milan prosecutors are investigating six former employees of surveillance software maker Hacking Team in connection with a massive attack on the data system of the Italian cybersecurity firm, sources familiar with the case said on Friday. […]Investigative sources said the six suspects had already been placed under investigation in…
Category: Hack
Statement From Avid Life Media Inc. (AshleyMadison breach)
TORONTO, July 20, 2015 — We were recently made aware of an attempt by an unauthorized party to gain access to our systems. We immediately launched a thorough investigation utilizing leading forensics experts and other security professionals to determine the origin, nature, and scope of this incident. We apologize for this unprovoked and criminal intrusion…
Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked
Brian Krebs reports: Large caches of data stolen from online cheating site AshleyMadison.com have been posted online by an individual or group that claims to have completely compromised the company’s user databases, financial records and other proprietary information. The still-unfolding leak could be quite damaging to some 37 million users of the hookup service, whose slogan is…
Another escort service-related site hacked with data dumped
@ElSurveillance, who has attacked a number of escort service-related sites such as the MeetMeInYourCity.com hack, has released another data dump tonight – this one for Captain 69™ Worldwide Escort Reviews. @ElSurveillance posted 2,653 usernames and passwords from the UK site, with a note pointing people to crackstation.net to crack the sha256 to plain-text passwords. Well, at least the site tried to secure…
UCLA Health discloses network breach potentially affecting 4.5 million patients
UCLA Health announced today it was a victim of a criminal cyber attack. While the attackers accessed parts of the computer network that contain personal and medical information, UCLA Health has no evidence at this time that the cyber attacker actually accessed or acquired any individual’s personal or medical information. UCLA Health estimates that data…
Loan application data held by AFC Kredieten hacked by Rex Mundi, company responds: Meh, not our customers
Jennifer Baker reports: Hacker collective Rex Mundi has stolen 24,000 financial records from Belgian loan company AFC Kredieten, it claims, and if the company doesn’t pay up before Friday at 8pm, it will publish every loan applicant record in its possession. As proof that they have successfully hacked the company, Rex Mundi has already published…