UPDATE: #OpBank was not a real operation – or at the very least, there’s no indication it has been carried out as reported by media coverage elsewhere. Earlier today, @Gardenslayer tweeted: #OpBank is NOT a real op, it’s a screening assignment for new @Gardenslayer writers. #BoA was NOT compromised. Similarly, @DiscordiAnon tweeted: @PeterHScrooby your article…
Category: Hack
Making political hay of the CSLEA hack?
And so the political fallout and fingerpointing begins? Suzanne Phan of News10 in California reports that the Peace Officers of California (POC) are demanding a full legislative investigation of the California State Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) hack by members of Anonymous/AntiSec. Phan identifies POC as a “rival subset” of CSLEA. Jim Sanders elaborates in The…
Some members of Anonymous go after neo-Nazi organizations and sites (update1)
OK, first I noticed a paste on Pastebin.htm on December 30 by a “guest” that simply listed domain names: www.deutsche-stimme.de www.ds-versand.de altermedia-deutschland.info flutopfer.npd-sachsen.de gfp-netz.de naweko.de nein-zum-euro.de npd-bremen.de npd-sachsen.de stehar.com tinten-sachse.de www.frank-franz.de www.holger-apfel.de www.naweko.de www.nno-tv.de www.npd-dresden.de www.npd-fraktion-burgenlandkreis.de www.npd-fraktion-sachsen.de www.npd-kronach.de www.npd-leipzig.net www.npd-nol.de www.npd-sachsen.de www.npd-weissenfels.de NPD is the extreme right-wing party in Germany, so the paste caught my…
AntiSec dumps e-mail and contact info for NYS law enforcement groups – but which? (updated)
As noted New Year’s Eve, members of the #Anonymous #AntiSec collective welcomed 2012 by dumping data from law enforcement-related organizations on both coasts. I described the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association hack in a previous blog entry. Now let’s turn to the east coast, where the hackers dumped data reportedly from multiple organizations. In their…
Saudi Hackers claim to post personal information of 400 thousand Israelis (updated)
Sefi Krupsky and Oded Yaron report: A hacker claiming to be a member of a group of Saudi hackers called Group-XP, hacked into Israel’s leading sports website – One, and posted what he claims is the personal information – including credit card numbers – of hundreds of thousands of Israelis. People who visited One’s website,…
Update on Care2 breach: how to delete the account(s) you didn’t know you had (update1)
The more some of us delve into the Care2 breach, the more it becomes clear that the only reason the social networking site can claim almost 18 million members is because many “members” never knowingly signed up as members and had their “membership” created for them without their knowledge or direct consent. Following my post…