Yesterday, the Chinese internet was shaken by the news that IT portal and community CDSN has been hacked and data for its more than six million users had been stolen, including usernames and passwords. Today, reports have it that CDSN wasn’t the only site affected. Duowan, a games site, was hacked and hackers stole the…
40 Million User details leaked from tianya.cn
Well in whats been a very busy Xmas for hackers all around the web, has resulted in china seeing a fair few hacked sites and lots and lots of user accounts and personal information. In one of the latest attacks, which happened last week but has since been said to be confirmed by an employee who wished to remain anonymous in…
Update: SpecialForces.com hackers acquired 8,000 credit card numbers
On December 14, I became aware of a data dump from a hack of SpecialForces.com, a business that caters to those seeking military gear. As is our now informal policy, I waited a bit to post it to DataLossDB.org so that the firm would have a chance to get their customers’ data removed from the…
LulzXmas Donations by @DestructiveSec
In what has been so far a very expensive week for the rich has also been a decent week for the poor, they have been getting donations from all sorts of places. @DestructiveSec has been keeping within the normal, that’s if there is such a normal, lulzXmas spirit by having a burst give out of paypal donations. content/images/gallery/random2/twitter-destructivesec-the-first-person-to-reply.png Now…
Preliminary analysis of Stratfor data dump (updated)
Identity Finder has analyzed some of the data released from the Stratfor hack: 50,277 unique credit card numbers, of which 9,651 are not expired 86,594 email addresses, of which 47,680 are unique 27,537 phone numbers, of which 25,680 are unique 44,188 encrypted passwords, of which roughly 50 percent could be easily cracked 73.7 percent of decrypted passwords…
California Amendment Mandates A.G. Notification For Major Data Breaches
A reminder that California’s new breach notification law goes into effect on January 1. From Loeb & Loeb: Under the revised law, when the security of consumer personal information is breached, the business that possessed the information must include in its notice to consumers: A list of the types of personal information that were the…