Kavita Iyer reports: In response to the “ISIS day of trolling”, the ISIS-affiliated Islamic Cyber Army (ICA) have reportedly released the personal information of some 160 U.S. military personnel. The personal information released included full names, addresses, phone numbers, and emails of numerous high-ranking U.S. and French military officials. It came on a day that…
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Anonymous Hacks European Space Agency Domains
Waqas writes: The online hacktivist Anonymous has breached the subdomains of the European Space Agency website and leaked personal and login credentials of thousands of subscribers and officials — The reason for targeting the agency? Well, ”We did it for the Lulz” says Anonymous. […] he data has been divided into three files which include site’s database, full…
UK: Personal registrant data leaked by General Optical Council
Simon Jones reports: Personal data of General Optical Council registrants has been mistakenly shared by the regulator with three optical organisations. Home contact addresses of fully qualified registrants were shared earlier this year with three organisations working within the optical sector. The GOC said the details would have been handed over if a home address…
Anonymous claims to leak Paris climate officials’ data (UPDATED)
Cory Bennett reports: The hacker group Anonymous claims to have released the personal log-in details of roughly 1,415 officials at the United Nations climate conference in Paris. The release was apparently done to protest the recent detention of activists during a climate march in Paris on Sunday. Over 200 people were arrested after clashing with…
UK: Children’s charity hit by server theft
Alexander J. Martin reports: A two-man break in at the London offices of children’s charity Plan UK has resulted in theft of five computer servers. Plan UK has stated that while “the likely motive was to steal the equipment itself, rather than the data … we cannot escape the fact that personal information is also…
#ParisAttacks — Anonymous declares War on Daesh: ‘We will Hunt you Down!’
Swati Khandelwal reports: Following the bloody terror attacks in Paris where over 130 people were killed, the hacktivist collective Anonymous has declared total war against the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). Anonymous released a video message, posted in French, on YouTube Sunday announcing the beginning of #OpParis, a coordinated campaign to hunt down ISIS’s social media channels and every single…