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When Anonymous goes against you, there’s no way out! Same is going on with Canadian government who’s constantly under cyber attack against the approval of anti-terror law C-51 that weakens Internet privacy. On June 24, 2015, Anonymous breached into the server of Police Association of Ontario, Canada (pao.ca) and leaked personal details of its 1,300 employees and registered […]
Joe Siegrist from LastPass, a famous password manager program, admitted that its database comprising of email addresses, server per user salts, password reminders and authentication hashes were hacked. Joe Siegrist from LastPast wrote in his blog post published yesterday that “investigation has shown … that LastPass account email addresses, password reminders, server per user salts, […]
A hacker from Mississauga, Canada got imprisoned for leading a worldwide computer hacking group that managed to penetrate the U.S military network and famous online gaming systems Microsoft’s Xbox. David Pokora will be spending 18 months of his life in a United States prison on accounts of committing computer fraud and privacy infringement. He was […]
An expensive and highly sophisticated hack attack was carried out on the Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab by state-backed hackers. On Wednesday the world’s best cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab announced that its systems were attacked most probably by some hackers who were backed by a ‘country’. Reportedly, the customers’ data is safe since the sophisticated attack could […]
The world renowned Syrian hacktivists form Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) hacked and defaced the official website of United States Army earlier today (9th June, 2015). Hackers left a deface page along with a message on the hacked US Army website, blaming the country for training and sending terrorists to fight the Syrian President Bashar Al […]
Reportedly BitFinex was hacked but due to strict security measures implementation just minimal amount was lost. BitFinex keeps more than 99.5% of deposits from its customers in highly secure multisig wallets therefore just 0.5% loss was suffered by the Exchange. BitFinex basically is digital currency trading forum that is currently said to be in its […]
The online hacktivist Anonymous breached into the official website of Thailand Senate and Public Health Ministry, ending up leaking login credentials against country’s alleged support for human trafficking. The Anonymous hacker behind the famous World Trade Organization (WTO) hack is back in news with yet another high-profile breach where login credentials of government officials have been leaked. […]
An Adult Dating website AdultFriendFinder is the newest victim of a huge hack that exposed the personal information, with sexual orientation details, of around 4 million users. A UK-based Channel 4 News revealed that hackers compromised sensitive data like email and IP addresses, birth dates, and usernames. However, more nerve wrecking is the expose of sexual […]
Massive Healthcare Company is another victim of malicious Hacking — Currently the third Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurer targeted. Hackers have targeted yet another healthcare company, CareFirst Blue Cross and Blue Shield, a healthcare insurer that provides healthcare facility for residents in Maryland, Washington and parts of Virginia, said on Wednesday that it’s been struck […]
Anonymous hacktivist breached a government of Chile website and leaked login details of officials in support of student protests against the government’s education policy. The online hacktivist Anonymous breached into the official website of Chile’s National Municipal Information System and leaked login credentials of thousands of officials in support of students protesting against government education policy and against […]
Grand Theft Auto 5’s hub Rockstar Social Club was rumored to have been hacked. In reality, it is safe and another unnamed site has been hacked. Users urged to change their passwords immediately. Users on Reddit reported that their GTA V’s PC account got hacked and even modified by unauthorized users. This was followed by lodging […]
Online hacktivist Anonymous has breached into the website of an Israeli arm importer and manufacture Fab-Defanse (fab-defense.com) and leaked login credentials plus personal details of its local and international clients/customers, including some government officers. The latest cyber attack was conducted under the banner of OpIsrael. After analyzing we found out that data is legit and never been […]
Domanik Green, a 14-year-old student studying at Florida’s Paul R. Smith Middle School managed to bypass the school’s computer security network using just his computer skills and gained access to the server that contained FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test) data. FCAT data is basically a standardized evaluation, which requires to be administered every year for […]
Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA) has reported that two of its backup hard drives containing information of about 40000 people involving their health and insurance details have been stolen during the transportation of the hard drives to offsite stores. The incident took place on 13th of February 2015. ISMA is unaware of how this is […]
Not even a month has passed since AllCrypt Bitcoin was taken down and another Altcoin exchange has been attacked by hackers. Cryptoine offers numerous markets that are generally absent from larger exchanges. Apparently, it has stopped operating due to a hack attack. Operators of Cryptoine have promised to reveal details but no specific time or […]
A hacker group labelled “Who am I = No nuclear power” released data regarding the advanced power reactor (APR) 1400 and system plans from Kori nuclear plant on Twitter this Tuesday. The tweet also had a ransom message for an unknown amount for not exporting the stolen data to other countries. There were clues regarding the […]
Medical and financial data of around 11 million Premera Blue Cross customers has potentially been exposed due to a breach that apparently occurred on the same date as of the Anthem breach. The firm announced about the breach on Tuesday and revealed that it identified the violation on January 29, 2015, and collaborated with the […]
Summary: The university of Chicago was hacked – The officials got to know in January 2015 that social security numbers and other sensitive information was compromised. The university of Chicago was under a massive cyber attack where unknown hackers breached into the computer networks stealing person details of staff and students. According to reports the duration and exact […]
The U.S Department of Justice announced that there has been the largest data breach in the history of U.S done by two Vietnamese men, one of whom who has pleaded guilty, as they hacked eight U.S email service providers and stole 1 billion email addresses along with other classified information. In a statement given by […]
Uber, a private international transport company headquartered at San Francisco, announced on Friday that the company had suffered a massive data breach in 2014. In a statement released on Friday, the company admitted that their website was accessed by an unauthorized third party and sensitive data of about 50,000 drivers were stolen. The one-time breach […]
Hackers have breached the billing and payment pages of BigFish Games and stolen sensitive information, according to the company’s notification letter published on 11 February 2015. BigFish Games, founded in 2002, is ranked 1,589 in the United States and 2,817 globally, according to Alexa. The hackers intercepted the customer payment information and might have stolen […]