Posted by Iowa State earlier today: Information technology staff at Iowa State University have discovered a breach affecting five departmental servers on campus. An extensive analysis has revealed the compromised servers contained Social Security numbers of 29,780 students enrolled at Iowa State between 1995 and 2012. There’s no evidence any of the data files were…
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University of Virginia, Spokeo, Indiana among eight more sites hacked by NullCrew (update1)
Students and employees of the University of Virginia (UVa) may be scratching their heads today and wondering what UVa can or will do to secure its servers better. The university, which was hacked in 2012 by @AnonAntidote and again in 2013 by a former UVa student known as @R00tTh3B0x, has reportedly been hacked yet again –…
NullCrew hints at major hack
International Civil Aviation Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations. I’d never heard of them, and would guess many readers haven’t either, but they seem to have caught NullCrew’s attention. Yesterday, the hackers posted something on Pastebin that revealed a database name, with corresponding database user name (“root”) and the database password in plain…
Moscow Hacker Faces Extradition Requests by U.S., Russia
David Voreacos and Maud van Gaal: A Muscovite accused of helping to lead the most prolific computer hacking ring to hit corporate America faces competing extradition requests by the U.S. and Russia. Vladimir Drinkman, who has been in custody in the Netherlands since his arrest on June 28, 2012, was the subject of an extradition…
U.S. Agent Lures Romanian Hackers in Subway Data Heist
Del Quentin Wilber reports: … The Secret Service and FBI are investigating an increasing number of attacks on U.S. retailers’ data, including the massive breach of Target Corp. (TGT:US) last year that affected more than 40 million debit and credit card accounts. Investigators won’t talk about the Target probe. Instead, the Secret Service pointed to O’Neill’s investigation that…
Ca: RCMP charge 19-year-old man in Heartbleed privacy breach at Canada Revenue Agency
Christina Commisso reports: A 19-year-old man from London, Ont., has been charged in connection with using the Heartbleed bug to exploit taxpayer data from the Canada Revenue Agency website. The RCMP announced Wednesday that Stephen Arthuro Solis-Reyes was arrested at his home Tuesday without incident. He has since been released and is staying with his…