Joseph Cox reports: A hacker is advertising a cache of email addresses, poorly secured passwords, phone numbers, and other information from users of photo sharing and video streaming app ’17’, which is particularly popular in Asia. The data is being sold on The Real Deal, a dark web market that specialises in stolen information and computer exploits. The data…
Philippines election hackers taunt ‘find us if you can’ as second suspect is arrested
Jason Murdock reports: Law enforcement authorities in the Philippines have arrested a second suspect in relation to the hack and defacement of the country’s electoral commission, that resulted in the loss of up to 55 million voter records. In a press conference held on 29 April, Andres Bautista, the chairperson of the Commission on Elections…
Protected: Accessing Movimiento Ciudadano’s database was as easy as 1, 2, 3
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#OpAfrica Sees Anonymous Leak 1TB of Data from Kenyan Ministry
Hacked reports: Hactivist collective Anonymous has begun to leak documents from the Kenyan government as a part of a sophisticated operation called #OpAfrica, a campaign aimed to expose the government corruption across Africa. An initial sample of 95 documents revealed via an Anonymous Twitter account and can be accessed via a TOR browser. Hacked reviewed the documents…
In: Hacked Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation website, made lakhs selling fake tickets before CBI got him
Ruchi Dua reports: A man who used to hack train ticket booking website IRCTC to generate fake tickets was arrested from Dakshan Darwaza area in eastern Uttar Pradesh’s Basti town on Thursday by a joint team of the Central Bureau of Investigation and railway’s vigilance department, police said. Hamid was arrested by a team of…
MI: Former doctor’s office clerk sentenced for stealing patients’ identities
WZZM reports: A former doctor’s office billing clerk will spend time in prison for writing checks and applying for credit cards using information stolen from patients. Christine Ann Kroeze will spend between 4.5 and 14 years in prison on six felony convictions. Read more on WZZM. The accompanying video focuses on a sign that…