Asad Kharal reports: A man was arrested on Wednesday for hacking into a cellular company’s database and uploading the information of its subscribers on a website. Mubashar Shahzad, a resident of Kasur, was arrested after the National Response Centre for Cyber Crime (NR3C) of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) traced his IP (internet protocol) address,…
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Anti-media cybercrime spree continues: Al Arabiya hacked by NullCrew
Violet Blue reports that NullCrew teamed up with the Horsemen of Lulz and used the same unpatched vulnerability in Zimbra that it used to hack Comcast to now hack Al Arabiya, the second largest media company in the Middle East. Read more on ZDNet.
Hack of Boxee.tv exposes password data, messages for 158,000 users
Dan Goodin reports: Hackers posted names, e-mail addresses, message histories, and partially protected login credentials for more than 158,000 forum users of Boxee.tv, the Web-based television service that was acquired by Samsung last year, researchers said. The breach occurred no later than last week, when a full copy of the purloined forum data became widely available,…
JSTOR notifying 800 users that account information was accessed by unauthorized individual(s)
JSTOR, a not-for-profit founded to help academic libraries and publishers (and part of ITHAKA), is notifying 800 users of a breach discovered on March 17: RE: Important Security Notice from JSTOR We are writing to let you know that your MyJSTOR account was recently accessed without authorization by a third party. What this means to you…
United Opt Out attacked; site destroyed
Shame on whoever did this: someone attacked United Opt Out, an information resource and advocacy site for parents who want to opt their children out of mandated state tests/high stakes testing. The organization also resists “market-based reforms that seek to privatize and destroy public education.” In a statement sent to DataBreaches.net, Peggy Robertson, one of…
Bank drops lawsuit against Target and Trustwave
Jeremy Kirk reports that Trustmark National Bank, one of the two plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed by banks against Target and Trustwave, has filed a notice of voluntary dismissal to drop their role in the lawsuit. Because the lawsuit was dropped without prejudice, the bank may re-file the suit at some point, although I suspect…