Another report from CyberWarNews.info: Tonight a hacker using the handle @smitt3nz has announced another leak which this time is from the World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League Website (http://www.wptapl.com/). […] The surprising part about this is the fact the an Australian government worker from the defence department has registered with the defence.gov.au email. Other email addresses used are whitehouse, IRS, us courts, Wichita…
Pointer: MMMOOO hacked – 86,369 User Credentials Leaked
Over on CyberWarNews.info, Lee reported: Today a group of hackers going by the name hitlersec have been announcing some breaches and one of the is MMMOOO (http://www.immmooo.com/en/). MMMOOO is a website owned and operated by Shanghai Jibiao Info Tech Co., Ltd, and is a mobile phone application aimed at the Chinese market. Read more on Cyber…
Hacker backdoors Linksys, Netgear, Cisco and other routers
Richard Chirgwin reports: The new year begins as the old year ended: with yet more vulnerabilities turning up in consumer-grade DSL modems. A broad hint for any broadband user would be, it seems, to never, ever enable any kind of remote access to the device that connects you to the Internet. However, the hack published…
CN: Alipay apologizes for data theft
Back in 2011, I posted several reports of massive hacks or insider data theft involving Chinese sites. One of the reports involved Alipay, which is Alibaba’s online payment system. At the time, Alipay would only confirm that IDs had been involved, but said it was only IDs. Today, I saw this on ECNS.cn: Alipay, the online…
Another University of Florida breach that flew under my radar
Stumbled across this University of Florida breach today while searching for something else: Payroll Breach Information Published: March 11th, 2013 On February 17, 2013, the University’s Privacy Office was notified that a list of social security numbers (SSN) was mistakenly released. Specifically, a payroll processing report that included SSNs was shared by means of a public…
Two University of Florida breaches in 2013 that I seem to have missed
Just stumbled across these while searching for something else and I don’t recall ever seeing them before – from UF’s web site: UF Beaches Women’s Health Specialists Lab Tests Inadvertently Sent to Baptist Medical Center Published: July 15th, 2013 The University of Florida (UF) is notifying 142 patients of the University of Florida Beaches Women’s Health…