Carrie-Ann Skinner reports: TicketWeb has suffered a security breach which saw emails containing malicious links purporting to be from Adobe sent to its customers. On February 11 customers of the British ticketing site reported receiving up to four emails all with the subject ‘Action Required: Update Your PDF Application’. The email claimed that the recipient’s…
Category: Hack
Microsoft Store hacked in India, passwords stored in plain text
Sean Buckley reports: Frequenters of India’s online Microsoft Store were briefly greeted with the suspicious visage of a Guy Fawkes mask this morning, following a hack that compromised the site’s user database. According toWPSauce, Microsoft Store India’s landing page was briefly taken over by a hacker group called Evil Shadow Team, who, in addition to putting a…
Hacker Says He Compromised Intel, Gained Private Info
Kevin Parrish reports: A hacker using the pseudonyms “Weedgrower” and “X-pOSed” is claiming that he compromised Intel and obtained sensitive data by using a flaw in the subscriber segment of Intel’s web site. With access to the Intel.com database, the hacker claims he can retrieve sensitive information like credit card numbers, social security numbers, email…
Brazzers pornography site forum broken into, hacker says more than 350,000 users’ data compromised
Ralph Satter of Associated Press reports a 17 year-old Moroccan who claims allegiance to Anonymous acquired personal information on 350,000 users of a popular pornography site by hacking into an older un-updated forum: A small sample of the hundreds of thousands of pieces of user data allegedly compromised were posted to the Internet earlier this…
CORR and UPDATE: Nl: E-mail via Dutch KPN suspended after data theft
From ExPatica: Hundreds of clients of Dutch telecomprovider KPN are still unable to use their e-mail accounts after servers at the company were hacked. Unknown digital intruders stole personal data such as user names, home addresses, phone numbers and bank account numbers. A list with the names of 500 KPN users was posted on file…
Steam hack was worse than originally reported
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….