Via E Hacking News, A “t34m t!g3R” hacker by the handle of “An0nym0us sn3Ak3r” claims to have hacked FindFriendz.com and acquired 57,721 usernames and clear-text passwords. A subset of them, 364 usernames with their corresponding passwords appear on Pastebin. The data were posted on November 10. Update: I just came across something from May of 2011…
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Want something to do in Providence at night? How about staying home and changing your password….
Another reported data leak posted to Pastebin – providencenightlife.net – reveals usernames, clear-text passwords, and e-mail addresses. Fifty thousand were reportedly acquired and posted to another site that requires you to fill out a survey to download the data. Since I don’t do surveys, I haven’t checked the full archive, but 83 are are offered…
UCLA Psychology Dept. database hacked (again?)
Via Cyber War News, it seems that a UCLA Department of Psychology faculty database was hacked by Inj3ctor. Much of the data represent the names of departmental programs with corresponding names, e-mail addresses, and/or phone numbers and are just directory information, but there is also a dump of applicant information that reveals 26 applicants’ first…
Hack on online game, Mu Explicito, exposes players’ and administrator’s passwords
Another Pastebin dump, this one of a hack of Mu Explicito, reveals 35 usernames, clear-text passwords, and e-mail addresses as well as the site owner/administrator’s clear-text password.
Virginia Commonwealth University alerts 176,567 faculty, staff, students and affiliates to hacking incident
A notice was posted today on Virginia Commonwealth University’s web site: To the VCU and VCU Health System communities: A security incident has resulted in unauthorized access to a Virginia Commonwealth University computer server containing files with personal information on current and former VCU and VCU Health System faculty, staff, students and affiliates. We believe the…
Steam database hacked; extent of breach still unclear
Steam Forums has issued a statement concerning a November 6 intrusion. Their notice reads: Dear Steam Users and Steam Forum Users: Our Steam forums were defaced on the evening of Sunday, November 6. We began investigating and found that the intrusion goes beyond the Steam forums. We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam…