Browsing tag
Major professional services firm Deloitte has been targeted by a cyber security attack and reports say that the attack could have led to the breach of the confidential emails and plans of some of the blue-chip clients of the company. As per reports, Deloitte came to know of this breach a few months earlier, but […]
Weebly has confirmed the data breach whilst FourSquare disputes the findings claiming they were not hacked. The data breach notification LeakedSource has revealed that the web design platform Weebly and FourSquare, a local search-and-discovery service mobile app suffered a data breach. As a result, 43,430,316 Weebly and 22,534,984 FourSquare users accounts were stolen. Also Read: Online Ad […]
Though the cyber attacks on businesses are increasing yet people are not paying much attention — It’s time to protect your business from hackers Reports of hackers attacking big businesses like Target and Ashley Madison is a norm. The data acquired by them through such attacks is their strongest driving force. In today’s world, knowledge […]
With 2016, just a few days away, let’s have a flashback of the top 15 security incidents that took place this year. Hacking Team In June, the hacking team (a security exploit vendor) faced a data breach from an unknown hacker, who leaked their database, internal emails and their source code developed for the spying […]
J D Wetherspoon, a famous pub chain in Ireland and the UK has announced that they’ve faced a massive data breach when hackers steal sensitive data from their database. The breach took place in June 2015 in which about 657,000 customers had their financial data stolen. The Financial Times reported that stolen data contained names, […]
The officials are claiming that foreign spy agencies such as those from China and Russia are verifying hacked databases in order to find undercover U.S intelligence operatives. Foreign spy agencies such as those from China and Russia are verifying hacked databases in order to find undercover U.S intelligence operatives. [must url=”https://www.hackread.com/china-cyberattack-campaign-spying/”]China Caught Spying on Tibetan […]
Keeping Anonymous hackers out from news is simply impossible, the hacktivist movement is active 24 x 7 and you can always expect them to drop their cyber bomb on anyone at anytime — Just like today when WTO is under attack by Anonymous. One of the hacktivist leading Anonymous movement on Twitter just breached the World Trade organization’s […]
The AOL website has confirmed a security breach that could have compromised AOL users’ sensitive personal information such as email passwords, postal addresses, and answers to security questions on Monday. AOL is investigating the breach, which initially started once they noticed a significant increase in amount of spam, as spoof emails, from the AOL mail […]
The most happening events in cyber world that makes every web savvy thrilled and compel to think ahead of cyber crime are compiled here. The stories that you might missed can be again revealed with sincere efforts. So let us look over them! Microsoft planned to block Adware from July 2014 Adware that comes in […]
A hacker going with the handle of ‘Keo’ from Phenomenal Crew claims to breach into the official website of French-based automobile manufacturer company ‘Citroën’, leaking login details of site admins and 500+ users online. A hacker who contacted me via email provided me the screenshot as a proof of his presence in the website as […]
The hackers from NullCrew are back in news with their latest attack, this time the crew has attacked the official website of University of Neoliberal Arts (www.philophysics.com) and a Brazilian based technology institute REDNET (www.redenet.edu.br). The hack was announced by the hackers on their official Twitter account which shows 146 accounts from University of Neoliberal Arts and around […]
A hacker going with the Twitter handle of @Reckz0r has claimed to hack the official website of CNN’s International Edition website (http://edition.cnn.com/) for posting fake news and taking Israeli side on the Israel-Palestine issue. CyberWarNews reports that hacker announced the hack on his Twitter account, claiming to have hacked CNN International, accessing official accounts and posting four fake articles on […]
Hackers from Syrian Electronic Army known for their hardcore support for Syrian President Bashar Ul Assad have claimed to have breached the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense Email system and as a result number of secret emails correspondence have been leaked online. For now the hackers have released an image taken from the email correspondence between a Saudi and British […]
A hacker going with the handle of Remnant has breached into the official website of NBC’s The Voice (http://www.nbcthevoice.com) casting team, as a result 49 login accounts of site admin and casting crew have been leaked online. The hack was conducted yesterday in which Remnant found a SQLI vulnerability on the site, allowing him to access the server and access […]
A hacker going with the handle of Ag3nt47 has breached the official website Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University & Harvard University, as a result the personal and login details of staff have been leaked online. Ag3nt47 who announced his hack on Twitter claims to found SQL vulnerability on all three servers, allowing hacker to breach the servers and access […]
A hacker going with the handle of Ag3nt47 on Twitter has breached in to the official website of University of Zurich (http://www.uzh.ch) and as a result login details of over 3200 staff official have been leaked online. The hack was announced by the hacker on his official Twitter account in which he claims to have found SQL vulnerability […]
The members of Turkish Ajan Hacker Group Maxney & xXM3HM3TXx have hacked and defaced the official website of MTV (http://hello.mtv.com.tw) Taiwan; as a result 500,000 accounts of site’s users have also been leaked online. I was contacted by the hackers via Twitter and explained that reason for hacking site was to raise the voice of innocent people of Palestine under Israeli […]
The hackers from DarkWeb Goons have breached into the WOM Vegas site, left with leaking over 10,000 user login credentials few hours ago. The hackers who announced the breach on their official Twitter account left the data on Pastebin earlier, which was deleted by Pastebin for unknown reason. However now the data is uploaded again by […]