Steve Butcher reports that Mathew John Hutchison, age 21, pleaded guilty to charges of inciting others to commit an offense and to possessing a prohibited weapon. Hutchison’s criminal charges resulted from his engagement with Indonesian hackers who were attacking Australian sites in retaliation for revelations in documents leaked by Edward Snowden that Australia had spied on Indonesia. Hutchison…
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Wellesley College data dumped; server vulnerable to SQLi
So yesterday, TeaMp0isoN’s timeline looked like this (click on image to enlarge): Then this happened: Creds to @_TeaMp0isoN_ For Vulnerability Alert. Login Drop. [url redacted by DataBreaches.net] — Chief (@Puttied) April 5, 2015 The data dump was prefaced with this message: DB Drop BY Chief(@Puttied). Site : http://mobius.wellesley.edu/ This is their latest Login DB as…
AU: Linux Australia server hacked, personal information may have been stolen
Sam Varghese reports: A public server belonging to Linux Australia, the umbrella group for Linux user groups in the country, were breached on March 22, and the personal information of members may have been stolen. Detailing the breach in a post to the main mailing list, the organisation’s president, Joshua Hesketh, wrote yesterday that the breach had…
MI: Monroe High School student hacker disrupts school district Internet
Ray Kisonas reports: A Monroe High School student is facing possible felony criminal charges after the district’s computer system was hacked and its Internet service disrupted several times over the past two weeks. The alleged cyber-hacker, a senior, has been removed from school and faces disciplinary action in addition to legal troubles. Monroe Public Schools…
The Inside Story Of How Pakistan Took Down One of the FBI’s Most Wanted Cybercriminals
Eric Markowitz reports: Just before dawn on Feb. 14, in a quiet residential suburb of Karachi, Pakistan’s chief cybersecurity officer, Mir Mazhar Jabbar, stood silently outside the home of Noor Aziz Uddin — a man the FBI calls one of its “most wanted” cybercriminals. Jabbar knocked. Standing behind Jabbar was a team of local Karachi…
Western Montana Clinic notifies almost 7,000 patients of payment data hack
On March 18, the Western Montana Clinic announced that its website had been taken down after they discovered it had been hacked on or before March 14 by hackers who left a political message on the home page. At the time, the clinic said that patient data was safe, but they weren’t totally sure about payment data:…