Earlier today we did a short post on a very fresh hack that has leaked over 200k emails from Electronics Giant Philips. Since then we have been going over the data and attempting to figure out exactly where this data belonged and came from. here is what we got so , file name: emails_db.txt size: 4,358KB contains: emails only count, 197,000+ file name: becuase.sql size: 167kb contains: first and last names,…
Philips hacked, Loads of data leaked by #Anonymous
Electronics giant Philips has been hacked and has resulted in a large amount of databases being dumped online. The attack was announced via social media and was published on the anonhacknews website and has been tagged with #Antisec #LulzSecReborn. AoS @AnonOpsSweden #PHILIPS HACKED! DATABASE DOWNLOAD! [anonhacknews.blogspot.it/2012/08/philip…] [#Anonymous #LulzSecReborn #AntiSec #4Lulz] The leaked files have been uploaded…
Council data breaches increase by ‘alarming’ 1,600 per cent
Data breaches across the UK have dramatically increased in the past five years, figures released under freedom of information laws have revealed. Information disclosed by the Information Commissioner’s Office to a data security firm showed a major growth in self-reported data breaches every year. On average the increase since 2007 stood at more than 1,000…
50 busted in Shanghai for stealing and selling personal info (updated)
Zha Minjie reports: Shanghai police said today that they have bust a criminal ring that sold personal information to businesses for illegal gains. Police detained 50 suspects and found nearly 200 million pieces of personal information, such as cellphone numbers and home addresses, in their computers. One suspect surnamed Zhang took advantage of his assignment…
Bank vs. Customer Claims Rejected
Tracy Kitten reports: Labeling it “a very close call,” a U.S. district court has rejected a Mississippi bank’s efforts to have a former commercial customer held liable for losses, damages and legal costs in an ACH and wire fraud case. And one legal expert suggests the case could set a precedent for other similar fraud…
Assange supporters claim to hack Cambridge University
Ben Kendall reports: An investigation has been launched after a group which supports WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claimed to have hacked Cambridge University computer systems. The group named NullCrew, linked to the computer hacking network Anonymous, said it had targeted several university departments and broken into databases. The group published details of what appear to…