Gregg Keizer reports: Email addresses and names of subscribers to DefenseNews, a highly-regarded website that covers national and international military and defense news, were accessed by hackers and presumed stolen, Gannett announced yesterday. DefenseNews ‘ subscribers include active and retired military personnel, defense contractors and others in both the U.S. and other countries’ defense establishments….
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LulzSec Says Goodbye with New Data Dump
Ian Paul reports on the farewell message and data dump posted by LulzSec last night: … By far, the largest data trove is a compressed file containing nearly 600MB of internal AT&T data. The group also obtained what it says are a technical note from AOL; user names and passwords for employees of the investigative…
Meanwhile, over at Uber Leaks…
@UberLeaks has been busy revealing a bunch of recently hacked web sites. I’ve looked at the screenshots and tried to summarize the fields in the descriptions below. Note that #9 and #10 are flagged as it’s not clear which organization is associated with which data dump (if either) due to somewhat conflicting tweets. View this…
Nashville Zoo warns of website security breach
The Nashville Zoo sent an email alert to patrons warning of a possible breach in security on the zoo’s website that could result in the theft of customers’ credit card information. The email said law enforcement officials alerted zoo officials that reports of unauthorized credit card transactions appear to be connected to the zoo’s website….
PBS says its website has been hacked for the 2nd time in a month, with little data stolen (but there were lots of data stolen, it seems – Update 3)
Associated Press reports: PBS says its website has been hacked for at least the second time in a month — the latest in a string of intrusions into such sites as Sony, Lockheed Martin, Nintendo and others. PBS spokeswoman Anne Bentley says one section of a website in the Public Broadcasting Service’s collection of sites…
T&T supermarket chain in Canada discloses hack affecting 58,000 customers; issues warning about malware
Seen at InsideToronto.com: The website of Canada’s largest Asian supermarket chain has been hacked. Richmond, BC-based T&T Supermarket Inc, which has three locations in Toronto (two in Scarborough and one in the port lands), advised the public of “unauthorized and illegal intrusions” on its website – www.tnt-supermarket.com – in a June 24 press release. The…