Durgesh Nandan Jha reports: In a major security breach, the website of the National Security Guards (NSG) was hacked on Friday by anonymous programmers. Sources said the e-mails of certain officers were also hacked after which orders were issued to all officers and the NSG unit posted at the Palam headquarters to avoid using internet…
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Report: M’sia group hacked S’pore NParks site
Tyler Thia provides the update to a previously reported breach: The Malaysian hacking group H3x4 Crew has been identified as the ones responsible for breaching Singapore’s National Parks Board (NParks) Web site two weeks ago, according to a report. According to a report Tuesday by local daily The Straits Times, Malaysian employees from business consultancy…
KY: Thieves steal credit card information from local restaurant
Dave Spencer reports: The owner of Smashing Tomato, an Italian restaurant in Lexington, says they were recently informed by the Secret Service about stolen credit card information. Carolyn Toyoda, the co-owner of the locally run restaurant, says the call came as quite a shock. Toyoda says, “This is my family’s business, and we take it…
Chinga La Migra Hacks Arizona Law Enforcement for Third Unprecedented Time
Stephen Lemons writes: Arizona law enforcement cannot be sleeping well tonight, with the keyboard anarchists of “Chinga La Migra” (“Fuck the Border Patrol,” in English) claiming yet another hack with a corresponding data dump of local cops’ personal info. I only say “claiming” because I’m still accessing the torrent. (Hey, I never said I was Julian…
Database of Pakistani web site users exposed by hackers
A Pakistani web site, urdugalaxy.com, has reportedly been breached, according to a data dump posted on Pastebin. The database, which has not been confirmed by the web site as theirs, contains data on registered site users’ first and last names, city, country, cellphone number, profession, email address, date of birth, password (in plaintext), and ID (although…
Dk: Statoil Fuel & Retail closes three customer portals as result of data breach (update)
On Tuesday 28 June, Statoil Fuel & Retail closed down its customer portals in Norway, Sweden and Denmark after becoming aware that their information may have been compromised as a result of a data breach. The company has also notified the Data Protection Agency of the situation. “There are indications that client data may have…