Zhan Jie reports: Four suspects have been detained for obtaining user information illegally from one of China’s largest e-commerce websites and stealing money from its user accounts, Xinhua News Agency reported today. More than 2,000 customers of 360buy.com fell victim to the information leak and lost more than 30,000 yuan (US$4,785) in total, Beijing prosecutors…
Category: Hack
There are hacks, and then there are hacks: AntiSec exposes Lake County Sheriff’s Office operational manuals and information
In case you missed it when I posted it to DataLossDB.org, individuals who self-identy as associated with AntiSec hacked – and then dumped – a lot of sensitive files from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office in Florida. The hackers announced the hack on April 28 with a video and a listing of some data and…
TeamPoison still active, attacks governments and corporations
TeamPoison has been busy, it seems, despite the arrest of one of their members. In a tweet on May 3, the group announced they had hacked the government of Australia: Australian Goverment Owned by TeaMp0isoN : Listen to your citizens : pastebay.net/818484 #TeaMp0isoN — TeaMp0isoN (@TeaMp0isoN__) May 3, 2012 In a statement preceding the data, the…
Atlanta Student Suspended for Breach of School Database
Jeff Goldman reports: A 19-year-old student at Atlanta’s Booker T. Washington High School was recently suspended for seven days for stealing his father’s user name and password in order to change 18 fellow students’ attendance and course assignment records in exchange for money — the student’s father is a counselor at the school. The students…
Four Irish, British suspects helped Stratfor hack: U.S.
I updated specific incident reports on DataLossDB.org yesterday, but thought I should mention this here, too. Basil Katz of Reuters reports: Federal prosecutors said four Irish and British men charged in a crackdown on the international hacking group Anonymous also helped breach the security analysis company Stratfor last year. In an indictment made public on…
Hackers Threaten University of Pittsburgh with Disclosure of Students’ Personal Info if Demands Are Not Met
Jacob Kleinman reports: Members of the hacktivist collective calling itself “Anonymous” are targeting the University of Pittsburgh, and threatening to release a wealth of private information regarding the school and its students, if the University does not “apologize to your students, law enforcement, and professors on your home page of your domain for a duration…