Earlier today, I noted that the Yemen Cyber Army (YCA) had dumped another 1,000,000 records they obtained by hacking the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This latest dump is visa data. Here’s a bit of a summary of the newest data: The compressed file is 73.4 MB; uncompressed, it’s one text file of 362 MB….
Category: Non-U.S.
Data stolen during hack attack on German parliament, Berlin says
Reuters reports: A spokeswoman for Germany’s lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, confirmed that hackers had managed to steal data during the cyber attack two weeks ago. She described the detection of several data leaks. Details are unclear as to which specific offices the so-called “scattered data outflows” originated from, or what information they contained….
Yemen Cyber Army dumps visa data from Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Yemen Cyber Army (YCA) has released more data from its hack of the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs (previous coverage here and here). Media sources reported after the first disclosure that Riyadh confirmed the internal Internet network attack but disputed the extent of the hack. At this rate, their protestations might want to be walked…
Hacker accesses Gaana.com user data after site fails to respond to security alerts
Gwyn D’Mello reports that an online music site was hacked to make a point after they failed to secure their site despite multiple warnings: A white hat hacker used an exploit to gain access to Gaana.com user credentials, because they neglected to fix a security bug he reported. It seems Gaana.com was hacked a few…
Dutch upper house approves data breach reporting requirement
Telecompaper reports: The Dutch upper house of parliament has approved a legislative amendment on tightening requirements for reporting data breaches and increasing the privacy regulator CBP’s sanctions powers. The lower house approved the legislation in February. Under the changes, a data breach must be reported to the CBP if it impacts security and has a…
JP: Convenience store employee arrested for stealing customers’ credit card info
The Mainichi reports: A convenience store employee suspected of filming customers’ credit cards on his smartphone and using information on the cards to swindle the victims out of money has been arrested, Tokyo police said. […] Daijiro Kamino, 29, a former convenience store employee of Taito Ward, Tokyo, stands accused of fraud using a computer,…