Brian Barrett reports: Well, seems like LulzSec has returned, and moved beyond the DDOS attack! Not content to merely shut down one of Rupert Murdoch’s paper’s websites, the hacking group has instead planted a bizarro-Onionesque account of the mogul’s death-by-palladium on a Times redesign page masquerading as The Sun. Well played, #AntiSec. Read more on Gizmodo. As to why I’m…
Category: Hack
JLAudio responds to hack; notifies consumers to change their passwords
I’ve heard back from JLAudio, who confirms that they were hacked. A spokesperson for the firm indicates that the hacked database is maintained by a third party vendor whom they declined to name. The site was used by customers to upload pictures of their cars showing their JLAudio systems. The picture gallery has been removed…
Hacker: JLAudio database hacked; users’ information posted online
The hacker known as Abhaxas (@Abhaxas on Twitter) has uploaded a database with what appears to be 4,827 JLAudio’s users’ first and last names, street addresses with city and zipcode, ages, userIDs, e-mail addresses, and plain text passwords. In a preface to the data dump, Abhaxas writes: I warned you guys multiple times, but it…
Toshiba confirms they were hacked; customers notified
Last week I noted that Toshiba appeared to have been hacked. Now they’ve confirmed it. John Oates reports: Toshiba says that unidentified hackers have stolen customer records belonging to 7,500 of its customers. Credit cards details were not compromised, but emails, addresses, passwords and phone numbers all went missing. Read more on The Register. A press release…
MT: Yellowstone County website hacked
Katrina Heser reports: The State of Montana Technology Department told Yellowstone County today their website has been hacked. It’s possible that taxpayers who paid property taxes by electronic bank transfer may have had their account number exposed to the hacker. This does not include taxpayers who made payments by paper check or debit/credit cards. The…
Toshiba Hacked?
The message on the first Pastebin post said: Toshiba HACKED BY V0iD DATABASE LEAK: 16% More To Come…. What followed was a list of 11 admins’ email addresses from the TACP database with associated plaintext passwords and ID number. The admin with superuser status was noted. There were also 333 users’ email addresses and plaintext…