A Self claimed underground hacking crew has come out of the woods to make a statement towards UGNAZI @UG hackers who have been on a cyberwar path over the past few weeks. In a simple comment on our site came a message for the hacker crew that GearSec has come out of the underground to…
Another Florida sheriff’s department hacked
For the second time in less than one month, a Florida sheriff’s department has been hacked. In April, it was the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. This time, it’s the Glade County Sheriff’s Office. In a statement on the breach, @k0detec writes: Oh Hai Glade County Florida Sheriff’s Department. Your security sucks and your usernames and…
Extensive identity theft operation exposed
Melissa Cutler reports: A California man with North Texas ties is behind bars for drug possession. He was also in a downtown Dallas hotel room that appeared to be the center of an extensive identity theft operation. On Monday Dallas police arrested 26-year-old Justin Bennett. His last known address is in Los Angeles but records…
NHS patients' health data to be anonymised and shared
Jo Best reports: The government has finally released the long-awaited NHS Information Strategy. The document, initially set for release last year, was launched on Monday and paves the way for the anonymisation and reuse of patient data. “Our electronic care records [are] becoming a core source of all professional information. These records are a rich…
WHMCS victim of social engineering; over 500,000 client records stolen, deleted from server, and dumped publicly
Why hack when you can socially engineer employees into giving you the keys to the kingdom? Client management billing platform WHMCS reports that hacker group UGNazi successfully socially engineered their web hosting firm into providing the hackers with admin credentials. The hackers then proceeded to acquire their data, delete it, and dump it. The attack…
whmcs.com hacked, 1.7GB Data Leaked By #UGNazi
One of the most well known billing and support systems for website control systems WHMCS (whmcs.com) has been hacked and as a result a heap of data has been obtained and leaked. The attack comes from #UGNazi @UG twitter account as well as the hacked WHMCS Twitter account which has been used to announce that it…