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A hacker going with the online handle of Kuroi SH hacked and defaced several domains of the United States based Uniformed Services University and leaked 2014 login credentials online. Uniformed Services University (USU) is the country’s only Federal Health Sciences University whose primary mission is to prepare graduates for service to the U.S. at home […]
Experian, a major credit reference agency has suffered a huge data breach. Around 15 million T-Mobile users (who signed up for T-Mobile’s service last month) suffered as their information was leaked by hackers. T-Mobile used Experian to process its credit applications and perform credit checks on its customers. It is reported that any user who […]
In a previous article, we brought you news of Trump Hotels being breached by hackers. To update, we can now report that Trump Hotels have accepted and confirmed a breach did take place. During May 2014- June 2015, 7 of the hotels in the Trump Hotels group (owned by US Presidential candidate Donald Trump) suffered […]
Uber’s tentative and troublesome entry into the Chinese market has been compounded by news that Hacked Uber Accounts of Uber Riders are being used to carry out rides in China. Fraudulent use of hacked accounts adds to the regulatory issues as well as Taxi Trade opposition Uber is facing in China. Recently Uber had to […]
In August, we reported how Pentagon had its unclassified emailing server hacked allegedly by Russian hackers with a sophisticated phishing attack. Now, reportedly the computer systems of Pentagon’s food court were infiltrated by hackers and resultantly the bank details of an unspecified number of employees got leaked. [must url=”https://www.hackread.com/homeland-security-credit-cards-starbucks/”]Homeland Security Credit Cards Used to Buy Starbucks […]
10 million+ members’ data leaked after system breach of Rochester-based New York health insurer. Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, an upstate New York health insurer, informed media on Wednesday that computer systems of its own and those of its affiliates were breached. As a result, data of more than 10million members got exposed. [must url=”https://www.hackread.com/south-shore-medical-center-site-hacked-patient-payment-info-compromised/”]South Shore Medical […]
Starbucks coffee may be delicious for many but delicious enough to waste thousands of dollars in taxpayer money? The Inspector generals office of the Department of Homeland security said in its audit report that someone either hacked or stole the department’s credit cards and used them to purchase coffee from Starbucks. [must url=”https://www.hackread.com/starbucks-mobile-app-hacked-data-stolen/”]Researcher claims Starbucks mobile […]
A Saudi hacker going with the online handle of JM511 has breached into the server of a UK-based international network of independent recruitment experts known as TEAM. After bypassing the security hacker accessed and leaked login credentials of thousands of registered recruitment agencies over the Internet. The breach was conducted on 8th August 2015 in which […]
Impact Team, the group of hackers who earlier stole a huge amount of personal data of about 37 million customers from the renowned cheating website Ashley Madison, now appear to release all the information on the Internet. They have published near to 10 gigabytes of data, which includes all the personal details of the website […]
A security breach of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that was previously reported during May in which hackers stole tax information of thousands of taxpayers was actually almost three times bigger than the agency reported in the past. According to the officials at IRS, hackers managed to compromise data of as many as 334,000 taxpayers […]
The United States is now blaming the Russian hackers for hacking computers at the Pentagon. The United States military officials believe Russian hackers are behind the recent security snooping of the Pentagon’s unclassified emailing server that was being used by the Joint Chief personnel. The cyber-attack affected the emailing accounts of about 4,000 military officials, […]
Short Bytes: Lockheed Martin has decided to open source its secret cyber threat detection tool Laika BOSS at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas. FossBytes has always warned you about the levels to which the hackers and cyber attackers have reached. In the recent Black Hat Conference at Las Vegas, it has been brought […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports that earlier this year the records of 3.9 to 4 million people nationwide got exposed when an Indiana medical software firm’s networks were hacked. Medical Informatics Engineering or MIE informed the federal agency about the number of people affected by this hack attack on July 23. […]
Dubizzle, the popular Middle Eastern online classifieds for bargain hunters, sellers and job seekers has had its UAE servers compromised – albeit on a small scale. Dubizzle, an OLX company and one of the Middle East’s most prominent and active online classified website had its UAE-based servers breached few days ago. The company operates in 14 countries […]
Popular anti-virus firm and computer security agency BitDefender has become the victim of a highly embarrassing data hack. Apparently, hackers took away a “very limited” number of usernames and passwords of the firm’s customers and are now threatening to make the data public if the required ransom is not paid. However, BitDefender refused to give […]
Remember the Anonymous hackers behind the massive World Trade Center (WTC) leak? Well, he’s back with another breach and this time their target was the U.S. Census Bureau against TTIP/TPP. On 20th July 2015, the online hacktivist Anonymous breached into the official website of U.S. Census Bureau, accessed trove of data belonging to the Bureau’s officials and […]
The suspected Chinese hackers have once again managed to break into the United State government’s personnel management agency, leaving more than 22 million government employee personal records compromised, U.S. officials disclosed on Thursday. Twenty-two million is a huge figure! Last month, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced that the data of more than 4 […]
Back in the month of January, one of the most popular bitcoin exchange namely BitStamp was hacked which resulted in the stealing of over 19,000 bitcoins, worth about $5 million during that time. BitStamp is a European bitcoin exchange company and is officially registered in the United Kingdom. Recently a new document has been surfaced […]
Plex Media Sever forum’s registered users received an email from the firm announcing that a breach of their system has exposed private data linked to their accounts. The company’s official email instructs users to immediately change their passwords even if they have stored them in an encrypted form, that is, hashed and salted. Also, the […]
Not so long ago, Canadian servers were working under peace, but after the approval of controversial anti-terror bill C-51, there’s no peace only cyber attacks. On Thursday morning, the Anonymous hacktivist group conducted a massive cyber attack on Canadian government servers and breached into the Québec Parental Insurance Plan Centre, The Ministry of Labor, Employment […]
The meltdown of Donald Trump’s empire is slowly but continuously gaining momentum and the latest to add more misery to the real estate mogul’s already swelled up problems is the hack attack. Reportedly, the Trump chain of hotels has become the victim of latest hack attack by cybercriminals and a major credit card breach has […]