John Hudson writes: An IT expert speaking with The New York Times called it a Mission Impossible-like operation. Last month, a team of unidentified hackers accessed information to 200,000 Citigroup bank accounts by simply waltzing through the “front door” of Citigroup’s customer website. The bank came under fire last week for waiting nearly a month before notifying customers…
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Revealed: How Citigroup hackers broke in ‘through the front door’ using bank’s website
Lee Moran reports: Hackers who stole the personal details of more than 200,000 Citigroup customers ‘broke in through the front door’ using an extremely simple technique. It has been called ‘one of the most brazen bank hacking attacks’ in recent years. And for the first time it has been revealed how the sophisticated cyber criminals…
Bethesda Softworks hacked, personal data ‘stolen’
Bethesda has revealed that its website was hacked over the weekend. Personal data, such as user names, email addresses and passwords, may have been taken in the attack. Credit card and personal financial information was stressed to have not been compromised. “Over the past weekend, a hacker group attempted an unlawful intrusion of our websites…
(follow-up) Ireland to extradite “Boards.ie hacker”?
Back in January 2010, this blog lined to a report that Boards.ie had been hacked. Irish tech lawyer and professor TJ McIntyre notes that additional information on the breach was subsequently published on Boards.ie and the following month, The Sunday Times reported: The hacker has already used stolen passwords and email addresses to access credit…
Epic Games Gets Hacked
It seems like everyone these days are getting their sites hacked and their data compromised. Just yesterday we did a post about Codemasters getting hit in a fresh attack by hackers and yesterday afternoon I received this email from Epic Games: Our Epic Games web sites and forums were recently hacked. After some downtime, they’re back up…
Conduct unbecoming: Signing up for a porn site with a .mil addy? Seriously, folks?
The group of hackers at LulzSecurity.com had more fun today, it seems. I’m not reproducing their data here, but they posted unredacted emails and passwords of individuals who signed up for a porn site.. A few of them were from .gov or .mil domains and there were 18 from .edu domains: Hi! We like porn…