Hasan Bozkurt reports: The Presidency’s State Audit Institution (DDK) has revealed that the state failed to protect Turkish citizens’ ID information. The servers of the administration’s website has been easily breached, ID information of citizens have been stolen. These include the General Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs, the General Directorate of Land Registry and…
Category: Hack
U.S. Military Hack Looms Over Obama Speech
Courthouse News reports: For 40 minutes on Monday, hackers posted ISIS propaganda and purported military documents on U.S. Central Command’s Twitter and YouTube accounts, before both accounts were suspected (sic). The banner over both social media pages bore a picture of a headscarf-masked militant next to the words “CyberCaliphate” and “i love you isis.” Read…
FBI investigates ISIS hacker group Cyber Caliphate following a series of hacks on news organizations in Maryland, Albuquerque
This is from a few days ago, but should have been noted on this blog. Alejandro Alba reported: The FBI is investigating a series of hacks on U.S. news oulets by Cyber Caliphate, a group that claims to be part of ISIS and is planning a series of cyber-attacks on homes and offices across the…
Banque Cantonale de Geneve Leak – Rex Mundi (update2)
As seen on DPaste this morning and as tweeted by @RexMundi14: Dear friends and foes, Last week, we hacked our way into the servers of Swiss bank Banque Cantonale de Geneve (BCGE). While we did not access any bank account, we did download 30,192 private emails sent by both Swiss and foreign customers, in addition…
The National Accountable Care Congress is hacked; user data dumped
Add the National Accountable Care Congress to this week’s list of hacks. A dump of almost 900 users’ information includes their usernames, first and last names, e-mail addresses, company, city, state, and zip, password, and their join date and expiration date for their account – all in plain text. SLC Security, which first reported the breach, notes that…
Hirsche Private Asset Emergency Announcement Regarding Breach of IT Security by Hacker Group
ZHONGZHENG DISTRICT, Taiwan, Jan. 7, 2015/PRNewswire/ — The company is currently investigating the malicious attacks that have shut down the ITs infrastructure. Hirsche Private Asset Management Ltd. urgently asks any clientele that are contacted by third parties not known to them to ignore any information requests or offers. Client data is thought to have been exposed and…