A hacker who is known by the handle Over-X has hacked and left an official fox news website defaced. The fox news website is the official Taiwan domain (https://www.foxnews.com.tw/) and the defacement is in the form of a sub folder index so the main website is not effected but at time of publishing the sub folder…
After a Data Breach, Do You Need an Investigator or a Lawyer?
Catherine Dunn writes: Before becoming a computer forensics investigator who specializes in data breach response, Jason Straight was a practicing attorney. And even though he’s been in the investigative business for longer than he was a lawyer, he has to pause every once in a while when a client asks him a question in the…
South Miami Hospital patient reports tax refund fraud following insider breach
More on the South Miami Hospital insider breach: Myriam Masihy of NBC6 reports that Pictures taken in February and March of 2012 show Alci Bonannee and Chante Mozley, two convicted identity thieves, withdrawing cash from several banks in Broward County. The federal government says the money came from stolen tax refunds that belonged to people…
14,000 Student Credentials leaked from KTU Career Center, Lithuania
An Anonymous supporting hacker using the handle Hacker sTz & sTz Bar has hacked a Lithuania based university and as a result over 14,000 student login credentials have been posted. The attack has happened some time in the past few days and it was announced via the hackers face book page but the leaked data was uploaded to…
24 Pakistan Government Sites Exposed For Common Passwords
A hacker who uses the handle Godzilla or G.O.D has posted to pastebin on the 13th a statement which is followed by a list of Pakistani database credentials. G.O.D has carried out this attack claiming that Pakistan is supporting terrorist activities via ISI. Pakistan is a country which is currently supporting terrorist activities through ISI, and if they regret Pakistan…
Steakhouse Data-Theft Leader Gets As Much as 13 1/2 Years
Just to follow-up on previously reported breaches: The leader of a ring of waiters who copied customer credit cards at New York steakhouses including Smith & Wollensky and the Capital Grille so accomplices could buy luxury goods was ordered to go to prison for as long as 13 1/2 years. Luis “Damian” Jacas, 42, oversaw…