M. Alex Johnson reports: The hacking of dozens of websites worldwide by someone purporting to be connected to the ISIS terror group — including a Montana credit union, an Irish rape crisis center and a local Italian political party — almost certainly has nothing to do with the Islamist militants, law enforcement and security experts…
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Point-of-Sale Vendor NEXTEP Probes Breach
Brian Krebs reports: NEXTEP Systems, a Troy, Mich.-based vendor of point-of-sale solutions for restaurants, corporate cafeterias, casinos, airports and other food service venues, was recently notified by law enforcement that some of its customer locations have been compromised in a potentially wide-ranging credit card breach, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The acknowledgement came in response to reports by sources in…
Possible ISIS group hacks into 2 local websites
KSDK staff report: Two local websites are back up and running after they were hacked by a group that claimed to be the Middle East terror organization ISIS. The two companies that were impacted were MERS Goodwill and a local digital agency named Elasticity. Early Friday morning, web users who went to the site saw…
Anti-Israeli hackers target Louisiana’ Rapides Parish Police Jury, Bank websites
Waqas writes: The online hacktivist AnonGhost is on a hacking spree with targeting websites of top law enforcement agencies in the United States. A couple of days ago the hacktivists hacked the official website of Larimer County Sheriff’s Office not once but twice in a week. Today, the same group has hacked and defaced the official website of state of Louisiana’s Rapides Parish…
@MarxistAttorney tweet suggests he’s been arrested (corrected and updated)
Update of March 19: “Attorney” informs DataBreaches.net that he was not arrested and was just taking a break. Original post: It appears that a young hacker who goes by the online handle of “Attorney” (@MarxistAttorney on Twitter) has been arrested. In a tweet tonight, he wrote: Well this is the end my friends, it was…
Investigator Admits Guilt in Hiring of a Hacker
Matthew Goldstein reports: A private investigator who has done work for small New York City law firms that specialize in personal injury and medical malpractice litigation pleaded guilty on Friday in federal court in Manhattan to one charge of conspiracy in hiring a hacker to help with his investigation. The guilty plea, by Eric Saldarriaga,…