Press release: Five computer hackers in the United States and abroad were charged today, and a sixth pled guilty, for computer hacking and other crimes. The six hackers identified themselves as aligned with the group Anonymous, which is a loose confederation of computer hackers and others, and/or offshoot groups related to Anonymous, including “Internet Feds,”…
Belfast city councillors’ bank details disclosed in data foul-up
Amanda Poole reports on another case where a response for records results in a data breach: Belfast city councillors were forced to cancel their bank cards last night after a major security breach in which a council worker accidentally released all their personal information to a member of the public. An internal investigation is now…
Peru Police Infomation Site Hacked
content/images/gallery/random3/twitter-lulzsec_gt-https-t-co-o13uhd6b-hacke.png Early today a Peru Police information website was hacked and defaced, the hack was announce via twitter from the @LulzSec_GT Account and the site that was hacked and defaced is policiainformatica.gob.pe/ Which at the time of publishing was displaying a maintenance page which suggests they have caught onto the attack and are in the process of…
Amazon, MacDonald’s, Walmart Coupon Websites Targeted By Indian Cyber Hunters
content/images/gallery/random3/indian-cyber-hunters-ed-by-code-smasher-parinda-hack-indian-cyber-hunters.png Indian Cyber Hunters, who have claimed to "be back" have started out attacking some coupon websites, leaving them with a main page defacing which has been on there for some hours now. At time of publishing all sites appeared to be still defaced. Reasons for these particular sites being targeted are unknown and the attack has been carried…
European Union Hacked By Abluka.Org
content/images/gallery/random3/european-union-hacked-by-abluka-org-european-union-hacked-by-abluka-org_.png @TheHackNews_Com has alerted us to a subdomain of the European Union which belongs to the European Environment Agency (EEA) and is a further subdomain of that which appears to be a live test site, which inturn has been pen-tested and now hacked and defaced, Al together 3 sub domains have been hacked and left defaced.. The hacker group Abluka.org has…
Kern Medical Center notifies 1,500 patients after records stolen from physician's car
Christine Dinh reports: Kern Medical Center is sending out letters to 1,500 patients notifying them their medical records have been stolen. KMC says the theft happened February 25. A hospital resident physician conducting research printed out 1,500 records of patients who previously visited the clinic for valley fever. The resident took home the records in…