Nicole Henderson reports: EllisLab, the software development company behind the ExpressionEngine CMS, announced on Friday that hackers gained unauthorized access to its servers at the end of March and may have obtained customers’ personal information in the process. According to a post-mortem blog post, hackers logged into EllisLab.com with a stolen Super Admin password at 10:49…
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More Uber Accounts Hacked – or Old Stolen Data First Being Misused?
Motherboard reports: Back in March, Motherboard revealed that fully functioning Uber accounts were for sale on the dark web for as cheap as $1 each. At the time, it appeared that the victims of those hacks were based in the United Kingdom. Now, Uber customers from all over the United States have taken to Twitter to complain that their…
U.S. Senate panel raises privacy concerns in White House hacking incident
Peter Cooney reports: The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee has written President Barack Obama over concerns that a recently reported data breach on the White House computer system might have compromised the personal information of many Americans. “Just like any entity that handles personally-identifiable information, the White House has a responsibility to notify Americans if the…
Baltimore police data dumped
I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised to see data from the Baltimore Police Department dumped in response to what’s gone on there. Email addresses and IPs plus a bit more information was dumped today.
Missouri high school student arrested on suspicion of hacking into school network
Heather Hourigan reports that a Fulton High School student has been arrested after hacking into the school’s computer system. The attack, allegedly by Austin Singleton, caused the network to go down for several hours, although personal information was reportedly not affected. Read more on ABC and KOMU. While the news stories focus on the student’s arrest, there’s…
Interpol alerted as teenage hacker from Perth flees to Europe
Richard Guilliatt reports: A teenage computer hacker from Perth who faces 25 charges relating to alleged attacks on Microsoft and the US army has absconded overseas, prompting Australian authorities to alert Interpol. The 19 year-old — yet to face trial despite being charged two years ago — has told The Weekend Australian he moved to Europe last…