Over the last few hours the main media has been going fairly nuts over the two teens who have been arrested for carrying out ddos attacks. Now while its still very early to say but the norway police claim the two who are 18 and 19 are main players in the recent attacks on SOCA, Norway’s…
UNC-Charlotte breach affects 350,000
Remember that breach that the University of North Carolina at Charlotte disclosed back in February? Well, they’ve finally released some details and it’s a doozy. Chris Dyches reports: An investigation into the incident shows that financial account numbers and approximately 350,000 social security numbers were included among the exposed data. The exposure has been remediated, officials…
OR: Former Bank Manager Guilty of Identity Theft, Bank Fraud
Another insider breach involving bank personnel: Randy Arlan Mainwaring, 41, former manager of the Thurston Branch of Key Bank in Springfield, Oregon, pled guilty to identity theft and bank fraud in federal court Monday. He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 17, 2012 before U.S. District Judge Michael R. Hogan. In pleading guilty, Mainwaring…
TPB Release Message in light of VirginMedia Attacks By Anonymous
content/images/gallery/random3/virginmedia-com-ddos.png Over the past few months Internet censorship has got fairly out of control with many governments putting pressure on ISP’s to block to sites that assist in downloading of so called illegal files. Virgin media has become victim to attacks for blocking its customers from accessing well known torrent site The Pirate Bay. The attack which started some…
Chinese Ministry of Public Security Hacked, Data Leaked
OpChinadownfall has increased the amount of sites that belong to the Chinese government to be attacked, one of the latest ones is the Ministry of Public Safety (https://www.mps.gov.cn). The hacks which come from @Drone547 have only leaked a small amount of admin accounts, 6 in total. at the bottom of the leak is the following note: "My attacks are usually…
7 MIT subdomains hacked and defaced by 1923Turk Group
content/images/gallery/random3/mit-hacked.png Turkish hackers using the handle 1923Turk Group have attacked one fo the most well known Technology Institute MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The attacks which have been posted on the groups zone-h page along with the other 190,000+ defacements on the 8th of may. At time of publishing it would appear that MIT has fixed or restored the sites. In…