Australia has ordered an Australian national, David Kee Crees, extradited to the U.S., where he faces 22 counts involving hacking, fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Two of Crees’ better-known aliases were “Abdilo” and “DR32.” “Abdilo” DataBreaches started reporting on Crees in 2015 when he was known to this site as “Abdilo.” At the time, he…
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Follow-Up: How the University of Sydney Was Hacked
Back in February, we noted a hack involving the University of Sydney. A young hacker named “Abdilo” claimed responsibility for it and noted that he had exploited an Orsee vulnerability. Last week, Chris Howell of Honi Soit followed up on the breach: Closer to home, a reliance on security through obscurity seems to be partially responsible for…
Northwestern U. hacked, but no personal info on server
Part of Northwestern University‘s network has been offline for over a week as a result of a hack first disclosed on Twitter. On April 5, “MLT” reported a XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) vulnerability on XSSposed.org involving themayor.itcs.northwestern.edu. And then this happened: Some Random University Login page : http://themayor.itcs.northwestern.edu/user.php?error=1 Admin Email : admin@mobius.xg Password : manager Yours Truly, ~Chief. — Chief (@Puttied) April…
“University of Racism” hacked; will others go after U. of Oklahoma student records?
“Because none of them seem to give a shit…” – a hacker commenting on the lack of response to notifying the U. of Oklahoma that he had hacked them. This blogger has repeatedly lamented the generally inadequate data security in the education sector and the fact that no federal agency actually enforces data security at the post-secondary…
@MarxistAttorney tweet suggests he’s been arrested (corrected and updated)
Update of March 19: “Attorney” informs DataBreaches.net that he was not arrested and was just taking a break. Original post: It appears that a young hacker who goes by the online handle of “Attorney” (@MarxistAttorney on Twitter) has been arrested. In a tweet tonight, he wrote: Well this is the end my friends, it was…
AU: 5,000 University of Sydney students notified that hack exposed their details (Updated)
Tim Asimakis reports: Thousands of students were today contacted by Duncan Ivison, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and informed that, due to an an information security breach, their personal information could now be in the hands of hackers. According to the email, the University’s Information Security Team identified that the ORSEE…