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Juniper network has had a major breach which has led to suspicions of a group of foreign hackers spying on the encrypted communications (within the government and private companies) in the U.S for last 3 years. FBI has already started investigating the breach in which hackers are discovered to have installed a backdoor in the […]
Websites and apps around the world encourage researchers to find bugs in their system, but an Internet dating app for HIV positive people threatens the security researchers with HIV infection if they notify the company about any security bug in their app. Hzone, an application for HIV-positive singles that has over 4900 users were told […]
ShortRead: The online hacktivist Anonymous has breached the subdomains of the European Space Agency website and leaked personal and login credentials of thousands of subscribers and officials — The reason for targeting the agency? Well, ”We did it for the Lulz” says Anonymous. Earlier today, Anonymous conducted a cyber attack on the European Space Agency (ESA) website (due.esrin.esa.int, […]
TuneCore, an online music distribution/record label service on Friday, revealed that its database was breached by the hackers and they have been working with security experts and federal authorities for tracking down the criminals. TuneCore is the latest in the list of high-profile attacks that has been carried out in recent times. Already hackers have […]
A Sharjah-based Investbank has been asked for ransom by a hacker who breached into bank’s database and has threatened the bank if the ransom is not paid all the information on the database would be leaked online. The name of the hacker who breached into the bank’s database is “Huba”. After stealing the data, the […]
Thailand police servers are the latest in the online breaches — This breach is a part of the campaign (#OpSingleGateway) launched by Anonymous against the Thai government. The server breach allowed Anonymous to leak private information regarding Thai officers and some evidence records. #OpSingleGateway is a campaign launched by Anonymous activists to protest and attract the […]
Yesterday HackRead reported how Anonymous breached into the official website of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and leaked a trove of personal information of about 1415 officials. We also reported that Anonymous is gearing up for a second leak related to the ongoing Cop21 conference. As promised, Anonymous has now breached […]
A Chinese company VTech, dealing in electronic toys has faced a massive data breach in which 4.8 million parents and children details are believed to be exposed. The hacker disclosed all the breached data to Motherboard magazine and Troy hunt (owner of Have I been Pwned service) also confirmed the breach. There was no credit […]
On Tuesday, Amazon started sending out emails to its users asking for a quick password reset, the reason is a possible breach of some of the users’ credentials. According to the email (dispatched by the company), Amazon was not sure if there is a possible breach into their systems or not but as a precautionary […]
According to an official document from the FBI, a Russian gang has been involved in a breach of 1.2 billion login credentials. Furthermore, the records state the gang as “CyberVor” and have been charged with theft of 1.2 billion login credentials and half a billion email addresses. FBI’s investigations were based on the findings of […]
A certification tracking system (Credential Manager System) used by companies like Cisco, F5, IBM and Oracle has faced a data breach and sensitive data might have been accessed by the hackers. An announcement made by Pearson VUE (Computer-Based Test (CBT) development and delivery) said a malware was placed on the server of the tracking system […]
The cyber war between Armenians and Azerbaijani hackers is never ending — Like in this recent cyber attack in which the Armenian hackers leaked trove of data containing banking details of Azerbaijani citizens. In July 2, 2015, Armenian hackers from Monte Melkonian Cyber Army hacked into the official website of Azerbaijani customs, stealing highly confidential personal information of 5650 […]
Chain of hotels owned by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide properties faced a data breach earlier this year and hackers got access of debit and credit card details of hotels’ customers. The breach also included two hotels from New Jersey, The Sheraton Atlantic City Convention Center Hotel and W Hoboken; both the hotels faced the […]
Earlier this week the servers of Brazilian Army got hacked leading to private details of around 7,000 military officials getting stolen. Hackers were quick to publish the hacked private data, which included national insurance numbers and IDs/passwords used for accessing official military websites along with other details. The attack on its servers was confirmed by […]
Newsweek has revealed that Spotify (One of the giants of the Music industry) faced a hacking attack last week and thousands of email ids and passwords were leaked by hackers. Newsweek interacted within 9 of the users whose accounts were leaked and posted publicly on 2nd November. Out of those 9 users, a user claimed […]
The teen hacking group “Crackas With Attitude” (CWA), who hacked into the email account of CIA’s director John Brennan last month has struck again. This time, they have breached into federal systems and have leaked lots of sensitive data. Since the last month’s attack, the hackers reportedly compromised email account of FBI Deputy Director Mark […]
A majority of British businesses are convinced that they won’t fall victim to a damaging cyber attack, despite that fact that high-profile hacking incidents are increasingly grabbing headlines in the UK and around the world. That’s according to research conducted by the identity and access management firm Ilex International, which is warning that there is […]
A security researcher (Troy Hunt), who owns the website (haveibeenpwned) have discovered a possible breach of webhosting service 000Webhost servers. Basically, hunt’s site provides information on whether a user’s data has ever been breached online. So, an unknown user recently contacted the researcher and told him about a data breach taking place in an attack […]
TalkTalk (UK’s largest broadband and mobile phones service provider) has possibly faced one of the biggest breaches in the history of cyber breaches. According to some of the reports, millions could be affected as the company currently has more or less 4 million customers from all over the UK and their personal and financial data […]
The CIA boss John Brennan had his AOL-based email account hacked earlier this week by pro-Palestinian hackers — Now WikiLeaks has leaked some of the email content to public under the name of The CIA Files. Wikileaks has announced that they have the access to the contents of the recently hacked email account of John Brennan […]
Some high school students are claiming to have hacked the email account of CIA’s director John Brennan. After hacking into the account, they published the personal information of more than 20 CIA agents. The leaked information included email addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers and clearance level of the CIA employees. All this information was […]