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Websites AVG Antivirus Korea and National Geographic Slovenia Hacked by Samurai Hacker

Samurai Hacker from Turk Hack Team has come up with his latest hack in which two websites, one from famous Internet security and antivirus solution provided company AVG’s for Korea and National Geographic’s official website for Slovenia were hacked and defaced.  The hacker who contacted me via email explained that reason for hacking AVG was hacked […]

International Center of Human Rights Website Hacked by Moroccan Ghosts

The online hackavist group Moroccan Ghosts have hacked the official website of International Center of Human Rights, ICHR (humanrightsintl.org). The International Center for Human Rights is a Toronto-based organization dealing with human rights situation around the world specially in Iran. The hackers contacted me via email explained that reason for hacking this site was to protest against alleged killings of people from Sunni sect by […]

22 Chinese Government Websites Hacked by Barbaros-DZ

The well known Algerian hacker going with the handle of Barbaros-DZ has contacted me with some special defacement in which 22 Chinese government sites have been hacked and defaced from 29th Jan to 19th February 2013.  Barbaros-DZ hacker who has hacked around 4000 Chinese websites in last six months promised to keep attacking Chinese cyber space.  In today’s […]

56 Christian Websites under French Government Hacked by Algerian Hacker DZ27

An Algerian hacker with the handle of DZ27 has hacked and defaced 56 high profile French government based websites dealing with the religion of Christianity.  While scrolling Zone-h I got hold of this attack in which the Algerian hacker successfully defaced the sites by leaving his deface page along with a message, greeting his fellow hackers […]

Supreme Court of Nepal Website Hacked by The Hackers Army

A Pakistani based hacker going with the handle of THADisasteR from The Hackers Army has hacked into the official website of Nepal’s supreme court (supremecourt.gov.np) along with two of its sub-domains (dcourt.gov.np) and (acourt.gov.np).  The hacker who contacted me via email told that the hack was just a test of skills and a warning for site […]

Top Gear’s Presenter Jeremy Clarkson’s Twitter account hacked

It seems that hacking Twitter is the easiest thing in the world, earlier it was Burger King’s Twitter account that was compromised and defaced into McDonalds and now the official Twitter account of Top Gear’s Jermy Clarkson got hacked by cyber criminals spamming about diet control.  The unknown hacker was quick in updating Jermy Clarkson’s status […]

#OpIsrael: Anonymous Hacks Israeli portal Walla, leaks 583,000 Emails & Passwords

An Anonymous hacker going with the handle of AnonSabre late last week leaked more then 583,000 credentials (email addresses and passwords) from the Israeli Web portal Walla. Israel’s one of the top most popular site, providing users with email services, news and searches.  TNW reports that the hack was done for #OpIsrael in which hacker leaked the data on […]

Burger King’s Twitter account hacked, defaced into McDonalds

The official Twitter account of Burger King was hacked and later defaced into official McDonald’s account. The account has now been suspended by Twitter administrators.  The funny hack came up few hours ago where The @BurgerKing account name was changed today to “McDonalds” and the Golden Arches’ familiar logo was added to the page, as was a message […]

415 Websites Hacked by AnonGhost

The online hackavist AnonGhost has hacked 415 websites belonging to different countries from all over the world. The hacker who contacted me via email told that he will carry on protesting against the government of the world.  AnonGhost left his deface page along with a message on all of the hacked websites according to which:  To […]

#TangoDown: Anonymous crushes Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIMP) Websites

The hackers from online hackavist group Anonymous India collectively took down the official websites of The Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) IIPM.in and IIPM.edu, two days ago. The sites came under attack after a DOT order which forced Internet service providers (ISPs) all over the country to block over 73 websites containing articles that were critical […]

Telecom NZ ‘s 80,000 Yahoo Xtra Email accounts Hacked

Yahoo Inc, keeping up with its poor security has now compromised more then 80,000 users from Telecom NZ. Telecom NZ a New Zealand based communications service provider (CSP), providing fixed line telephone services, a mobile network, an internet service provider (through its subsidiary Xtra), and a major ICT provider to NZ businesses (through its Gen-i division). It […]

68 Chilean Websites Hacked by AnonGhost

The well known AnonGhost hacker has hacked defaced 68 Chilean based website yesterday.  The hacker contacted me via email told that he will keep on hacking for cause no matter which country it is. AnonGhost left his deface page along with a deface message against the governments of the world which states that:  To the […]

#Op Myanmar: Mongolian Police Official Website Hacked and Defaced by ViruS Noir

The official website of Mongolian Police website has been hacked and defaced by Virus Noir from Moroccan Agent Secret for #Op Myanmar. The hacker who contacted me via email told that reason for hacking the site is to boast moroal for #Op Myanmar, test his skills and have some fun. Virus Noir left his deface page along with a […]

Facebook Hacked but User Data Remains Safe

The social media giant Facebook has released a statement accepting that it was hacked in January when its employers accidentally downloaded a malicious malware compromising the site security.  The incident occurred when some of the Facebook employers visited a mobile developer website that was already hacked  hosting an exploit which then allowed malware to be installed on these employee laptops.  The statement further […]

Elasher University of Egypt website hacked by Pak Cyber Eaglez

Pakistani hackers from Pak Cyber Eaglez group has hacked and defaced official website of Egyptian based Elasher University (http://www.eau.edu.eg).  The hackers contacted me via email explained that main reason to hack the site was to show their power and force the admin to secure their site. The site was left with group’s deface page and […]

IBN TV & 150 Websites Hacked by Pak Cyber Eaglez

A Pakistani based Pak Cyber Eaglez group has hacked a 150+ UK based websites including the website of an online Christian entertainment channel broadcast from the UK. The hackers contacted me via email explained that it was a collective attack, the reason for attacking UK based sites was to show them the power of Pakistan and […]

George Bush Sr’s emails hacked, photos leaked by Guccifer

A hacker going with the handle of Guccifer has hacked private emails and photographs of former US president George HW Bush and his family.  It is believed that hacked emails have the personal contacts and details of Bush and his family member.  BBC reports that one leaked photograph which is now public on the internet shows the 88-year-old […]

20 Israeli Websites Hacked by Virus Noir

Well known Virus Noir hacker has contacted us with his latest cyber attack where 20 Israeli websites were hacked and defaced earlier today. Virus Noir who is a hacker from Morocco, left his deface page along with a message on all 20 hacked websites which bashes the Israeli government for injustice  against the Palestinian people. […]

71 Top Turkish Government and its Ministry Websites Hacked by HacKingZ Crew

Hackers going with a group handle of HacKingZ Crew have hacked and defaced 71 Turkish government owned websites today.  The hackers left their deface page along with a simple message on all the hacked websites, according to which “Hacked By HacKingZCrew twitter.com and HacKingZCrew facebook.com/hackingzcrew” but the reason for hacking the websites was not mentioned. However the deface image […]