CHANDIGARH: A hacker accessed the email ID of a manager of a Chandigarh-based multinational company and fraudulently took away $11,178 (around Rs 6 lakh) from its US-based customer. The customer had placed an order of machines with the firm. The CEO of M/s Khosla Machines Private Ltd, Mohali, Darshan Kumar, came to know about the…
GNP Lawmaker gets summoned over political hacking
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Yonhap) — Prosecutors said Wednesday they have summoned ruling Grand National Party (GNP) lawmaker Choi Gu-sik as part of their ongoing probe over the controversial hacking of the country’s election watchdog in October. The two-hour attack paralyzed the Web sites of the National Election Commission and Park Won-soon, a leading Seoul mayoral…
AntiSec dumps 860,000 Stratfor members’ details, including 75,000 credit card numbers
As expected, hackers involved in the recent Stratfor hack have dumped everything other than the 200 GB of e-mails, which they are working on releasing after redaction. In a statement posted on Pastebin tonite that links to mirror sites for the data dump, they write: So now let’s talk… about cocks: It’s time to dump…
UK: Information on 1.4m customers lost by Cattles Group Birstall headquarters
More than a million customers have had their personal details “lost” after a data mix-up at a loan firm’s Birstall headquarters. The Cattles Group, which owns Welcome Finance loans firm, has written to customers informing them that two back-up storage discs with private information about 1.4 million customers have been misplaced. Marlene Proctor, 31, from…
CIA.gov and Nasa.gov Vulnerable to XSS, hacked by D35M0ND142
D35M0ND142 has discovered that two of well most known websites and two most high profile and what you would like to be high security websites have been yet again exposed to XSS Vulnerable. **Message in the releases ** first of all, this attack did not have any purpose or malicious damage. I just wanted to show that there…
New York City Public Advocate Downplay Massive Data Leak
Last week known hacker LulzOps hacked and leaked a huge amount of personal information onto filebeam, the information which has come to light contained personal storys and accounts of life issues etc and is really the type of information that you do not want the public to see. Any ways moving on the New York City Public Advocate…