Robert Lee reports: The number of leaked Korean social security numbers available online is likely to skyrocket as a massive social network hacking attack left more than three quarters of the nation exposed. A quick search using the keywords, “Korean social security numbers,” on Baidu, a Chinese Internet search engine, showed about 1.39 million results….
Italian Police release contains some worrying emails
Recently we have seen the Italian police suffer a big leak with lots of data being dumped on a range of download sites. the leaks come in the name of Anti Security, they come from the Italian police and have so far contained a bit of information.The most recent release, which has now had over…
More sites hacked by STK and @CMDL1NE
STK has been busy, recently dumped a fair few database’s on pastebin, and @CMDL1NE has been even more busy dumping raw database details one after the other on pastebin, from this we are seeing a huge increase in breached websites that have low or no security, pretty sad isnt it? STK Leaks Just two leaks…
TN: Gallatin Credit Card Fraud Linked To Computer Hacking
Here we go again – law enforcement decides that they can withhold information from consumers to protect a business. The Secret Service said more than 100 cases of credit card fraud reported in Gallatin was the work of a criminal enterprise that hacked into a local business computer. They are not releasing the name…
Suspected Anonymous hacker ‘had 750,000 passwords’, court hears
Graham Cluley writes: A London court heard this morning how 18-year-old Jake Davis allegedly had the login passwords of 750,000 people on his computer when he was arrested in the Shetland Islands last week. Davis is suspected by the authorities of being “Topiary”, the public face of the Anonymous and LulzSec hacktivist groups. According to…
AU: Hacked firms could be held responsible for privacy breaches
Chris Merritt reports: The federal government is considering changing the law so corporate victims of criminal computer hacking can be sued over privacy breaches. This change formed part of discussions on Monday between Privacy Minister Brendan O’Connor and a lobby group that wants to subject companies and journalists to criminal penalties for privacy breaches. The…