Today’s second example of an entity not knowing their data has been repeatedly dumped is Southern Powerlifting Federation. On April 7, “Jabb” (@Versifyings) dumped some of their smf_members database on Pastebin. The dump consisted of approximately 440 email addresses and hashed passwords. The database records indicate that there were over 15,000 records. Whether Jabbs acquired them all…
Category: Hack
Have you googled your site to see if you’ve been hacked?
It’s 2015, and too many entities still don’t seem to know to do Google searches or Pastebin searches on themselves to find out if they’ve been hacked or their data dumped somewhere. There’s no way this blog can report on them all or even alert them all, but one of today’s examples is WAYEB, the European Association…
French media groups hold emergency meeting in wake of ISIS hacking attack
Angelique Chrisafis and Samuel Gibbs report: The French culture minister has called an urgent meeting of media groups to assess their vulnerability to hacking after the television network TV5Monde was taken over by individuals claiming to belong to Islamic State, blacking out broadcasts and hacking its websites and Facebook page. Visiting the network’s headquarters in Paris…
AU: Melbourne hacker admits to encouraging Indonesian hackers to DDoS Australian government websites
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…
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…