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Loan application data held by AFC Kredieten hacked by Rex Mundi, company responds: Meh, not our customers

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Dissent

Jennifer Baker reports: Hacker collective Rex Mundi has stolen 24,000 financial records from Belgian loan company AFC Kredieten, it claims, and if the company doesn’t pay up before Friday at 8pm, it will publish every loan applicant record in its possession. As proof that they have successfully hacked the company, Rex Mundi has already published…

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Is a prosecution in Australia linked to the Lauri Love case in the U.S.?

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Dissent

Is a young man’s prosecution in Australia somehow connected to hacking charges filed against Lauri Love in the U.S.? It may be. This is Part 2 of a series, “Three men affiliated with Anonymous Australia facing jail time.” Part 1 described the case of Mathew Hutchison (“Rax”).  In this part, DataBreaches.net looks at the prosecution of “Absantos,” whose…

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Wicked WikiLeaks leaks considered harmful: Alert over malware lurking in dumped docs

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Dissent

Chris Williams reports: Documents laced with malware have been found in WikiLeaks.org’s cache of files obtained from hacked CIA wannabe Stratfor. Intelligence biz Stratfor was ransacked by Jeremy Hammond in late 2011, and its email archives passed to whistleblowing website WikiLeaks in early 2012. The Julian Assange™-led organization soon began distributing the archives using the BitTorrent file-sharing…

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Accused Hacker Kingpin in Plea Talks With U.S. Over ATM Scam

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Dissent

Christie Smythe reports: A Turkish man accused by the U.S. of masterminding a scheme that siphoned tens of millions of dollars from automated teller machines around the globe is negotiating a plea deal, prosecutors said. Ercan Findikoglu, known as the “Predator,” has been held in a federal jail in New York since he was extradited…

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More than 70 targeted in global takedown of hacker forum Darkode

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Dissent

Devlin Barrett reports: U.S. authorities Wednesday announced a global dismantling of a notorious hacker forum called Darkode, targeting more than 70 people in what they called the largest global law-enforcement effort ever undertaken against an online criminal forum. Police in 20 countries charged, arrested, or searched dozens of alleged Darkode members or associates, officials said….

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Bulgaria busts ‘Middle East Cyber Army’ hacker

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Dissent

The Sofia Globe reports: A Syrian national living in Bulgaria has been detained in an operation by police and prosecutors against hacker group “Middle East Cyber Army” that allegedly attacked more than 3500 websites around the world, placing messages in English and Arabic regarding the attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Read more on The Sofia…

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