Three months ago, Steam acknowledged that they had been hacked on November 6. At the time, they wrote: We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums. This database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information….
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Mobile Hack Update
Here’s a fuller version of the Associated Press report on a breach previously reported on this blog: … Mobile city spokeswoman Barbara Drummond said Utah authorities alerted officials Thursday night that hackers may be targeting the city. She told The Associated Press that the city shut down its computers to avoid the attack and that…
Alabama and Texas law enforcement sites fall to hackers (updated)
Hackers who have previously targeted police department or law enforcement-related web sites have struck three more sites in the past few days – one in Texas and two in Alabama: The Alabama Department of Public Safety (dps.alabama.gov) was hacked by @cabincr3w and w0rmer. Seven spreadsheets with information on sex offenders and limited information on the victims…
C.D. Peacock sues IT firm over network breach
Wailin Wong reports: Chicago jeweler C.D. Peacock has sued a suburban information-technology consulting firm, alleging that the company’s negligence allowed hackers to access confidential customer financial data. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Cook County Circuit Court. According to C.D. Peacock’s complaint, it hired Oak Brook-based BridgePoint Technologies for IT-related services in August 2009. In…
Hacker attacks restaurant supplier and alternative dispute resolution center
A hacker known as Visi0nZ has dumped 307 customers’ data from Andy Catering Equipment Ltd. in London: first and last names, e-mail and postal addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and plain-text passwords. The hack was revealed on Monday. RSI’s Court ADR Resource Center was also attacked on Monday. The names, postal addresses, phone and…
Hackers attack three more law enforcement-related sites, dump data
A few more law enforcement-related web sites were hacked this past week, to add to the growing list: Travis Crum reports that the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association site was hacked and officers’ data dumped online: The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for the people responsible for leaking the home addresses, home phone numbers…