Today the Syrian Electronic Army who started of 2014 with a bang with Skype. The incident appears to be isolated to a single bloggers account for Skype, Shana Pearlman aka @ShanaBP who is the content marketing manager at Skype (https://blogs.skype.com/author/shanabp/). Twitter user @Ihazcandy has pointed out a interesting fact that the tweets used to announce the…
UK: 800 NHS data breaches in five years
There have been more than 800 incidents of data loss by health boards in the last five years, new figures have revealed. They include patient notes being found in public places within NHS buildings, documents left in car parks and public transport, and personal information being sent to the wrong address. Figures obtained by the…
Alleged Snapchat hackers explain how and why they leaked data on 4.6 million accounts
Chris Ziegler reports: The individual or team claiming responsibility for SnapchatDB has responded to The Verge‘s requests for comment the morning after the database went online, containing a leaked collection of some 4.6 million apparent Snapchat usernames and partial phone numbers. “Our motivation behind the release was to raise the public awareness around the issue, and also put…
Hacker group targets Skype social media accounts
John Ribeiro reports: Skype said its social media properties were targeted, with a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army appearing to claim credit for the hacks. “You may have noticed our social media properties were targeted today,” Skype said in a Twitter message late Wednesday. “No user info was compromised. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.” Read…
Financial Services Online Australia Hacked, Affiliates Credentials Leaked
Earlier today Pakiz Cyber Squad announced a 14 part leak of data from Financial Services Online Australia (https://www.financialservicesonline.com.au). The announcement was made on Facebook and the data has been uploaded to pastebin, mostly as private pastes. The format of the dump doesn’t appear to be a typical sql injection but more so a text dump of…
This was all too predictable…
Remember how I posted about how some frustrated researchers at Gibson Security had gone public with a SnapChat vulnerability that the firm allegedly hadn’t addressed? Well, now it seems 4.6 million SnapChat users’usernames and phone numbers have been leaked.