Hyundai customer information seems to have been hacked and leaked by TurkHackTeam.org. The data fields include userid, name, telephone number, email address, and other details for what appears to be hundreds of the firm’s Brazilian customers. The data from what appears to be over 350 customers were dumped in two pastes on Pastebin last week….
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Feds Looking Into Whether Hack of US Government Affected Private Citizens Too
Mike Levine reports: Federal investigators are trying to determine whether the massive hack into federal systems announced this past week impacted far more than the estimated 4 million current and former government employees already acknowledged by the Obama administration, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. In particular, investigators are considering the possibility that…
iiNet alert over security breach
Grace Millimaci reports: Perth internet provider iiNet is investigating a possible security breach after details were posted on social media about the sale of the database of a major internet service provider. Cyber War News posted an image on Twitter yesterday detailing claims of the sale or trade of an extensive amount of westnet.com.au’s database,…
In: OlaCabs hacked, credit card info accessed; company denies data breach
Shruti Dhapola reports: A hacker group by the name Team Unknown has claimed that they successfully hacked into OlaCabs and managed to get access to sensitive information like credit-card history, vouchers, user behaviour. Ola has denied these claims. According to the post, which was shared on Reddit, the hackers put out snapshots which showcased credit cards…
Data hacked from U.S. government dates back to 1985: U.S. official
Andrea Shalal and Matt Spetalnick report: Data stolen from U.S. government computers by suspected Chinese hackers included security clearance information and background checks dating back three decades, U.S. officials said on Friday, underlining the scope of one of the largest known cyber attacks on federal networks. Of the four million federal employees whose data were…
Bin bods Brabantia breached, customer passwords trashed
Alexander J. Martin reports: Brabantia, the Dutch company most well known for making steel bins, has been hacked within the last 24 hours, and customer details may have been exposed. An email Brabantia has sent to consumers explains that “as part of our routine monitoring, we have been made aware that our database accounts have…