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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 […]

Iraq’s Prime Minister Website Hacked & Defaced by Team Kuwait Hackers

A group of hackers from Team Kuwait Hackers have hacked and defaced the official website of Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (www.pmo.iq).   The website which was hacked on 2nd Feb, left with a deface page and a message in Arabic language with an image of  Nouri al-Maliki insulting him with a shoe on his forehead. According to the deface message:  […]

Kurdish News Network KNN Website Hacked by Turk Hack Team

The official website of Kurdish News Network www.knntv.net has been hacked by famous Turk Hack Team from Turkey.  The Samurai hacker from Turk Hack Team contacted me via email, told that He is a Turkish Muslim Hacker and he has hacked the PKK’s terrorist site. Link of targeted website: www.knntv.net Mirror of hacked website:  http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/19248009 The hacker didn’t only hacked the […]

Israeli cellphone provider Pelephone says it was not hacked

The officials at Pelephone, Israel’s major cellphone provider company has announced that it was never hacked and cyberattack was never the cause for its service disruption. Gil Sharon, CEO of Pelephone told the media that We don’t know exactly what happened, it was a technical malfunction, but we know it wasn’t a cyberattack, we have a strong […]

Pakistani News Giant Jang.com.pk and PKNIC Domain Registrar Hacked by PAKbugs

The official website of Pakistan’s one of the oldest and biggest media giant newspaper Jang.com.pk, owners of Geo News has been hacked and defaced by PAKbugs.  The hackers with the handles of ZombiE_KsA, Z3r0Byt3, Xploiter and Dr.Freak from PAKbugs hacked the site collectively, apparently the hackers first hacked the hosting providers(pknic.net.pk) of Jang newspaper website, which further allowed hackers to deface the […]

Israeli News Site Haaretz Hacked, Emails & Passwords Leaked by Syrian Electronic Army

The hackers from Syrian Electronic Army have hacked into the mail server of Israeli News website Haaretz (haaretz.com), as a result around 100 usernames, emails and their plain text passwords have been leaked. The Syrian hackers claimed to found a vulnerability on the Israeli news site Haaretz email database which allowed them to bypass all the security set […]

#Twitterhack: 250,000 Twitter Accounts Hacked

Some unknown hackers have infiltrated the social media website Twitter, as a result the account information of around 250,000 of its users have been hacked and stolen. Bob Lord, director of Information Security at Twitter, writes on his blog that:  Our investigation has thus far indicated that the attackers may have had access to limited user […]

Wall Street Journal: We were also hacked by Chinese hackers

Wall Street Journal has announced that just like New York Times, their computers were also hacked by hackers from China making it a second major cyber attack on major US news outlet. The WSJ reported that the like NYT, hackers spied on their coverage specifically related to China for last four months. The Chinese response over hacking allegation remains the same, […]

Cat Loving Hacker hacks Cat Hater Website

A group of cat loving hackers have launched cyber attack on a controversial Cats to Go website belonging to New Zealand’s economist and a cat hater Gareth Morgan, as a result of attack the website was hacked and defaced.   The hacker left a deface page showing a cat handling Morgan in its hands and a  note on the site, according to which: Cats […]

Mozilla FireFox Norway Website Hacked by PakCyberPyrates

The official website of FireFox designated for Norway (firefox.no) was hacked and defaced by XXx_Death_xXX of PakCyberPyrates from Pakistan. The site which was hacked on 24th of this month, took sometime to be restored as the hackers left their deface page along with a message on the main page of  Mozilla website, a software community best known for […]

New York Times Computers Hacked Allegedly by Chinese Hackers

The officials at New York Times Newspaper have confirmed that their computers were hacked allegedly by Chinese hackers for over past 4 months.  As a result passwords of 53 journalists at New York Times Newspaper were hacked around 13 September, the hackers specifically spied on the accounts of those journalists working on 25th October story on investigation into the financial affairs of Chinese […]

Uzbeki State Television And Radio Company’s Website Hacked by Clone-Security Hacker

The official website of Uzbekistan’s National Television and Radio Company (mtrk.uz) has been hacked by a hacker going with the handle of Clone Security for operation #OpAntiLAGMON and #OpWhereisSecurity. On January 30, the hacker announced this hack his official Twitter account which soon made a breaking news in Uzbekistan. The hacker who is a part of Uzb3k Cyber […]

Emerald City Comicon Website Hacked and Deleted

The official website of Emerald City Comicon (ECCC), the biggest comic book conventions in the US said that some unknown hackers have hacked their website along with all the back up files.  The hackers deleted all the backup files and redirected the Emerald City Comicon website to their Facebook page. According to the organizers of the event: We […]

12 Vietnamese Government Website Hacked by Moroccan Ghosts

The hackers from Moroccan Ghosts collectively have hacked and defaced 12 Vietnamese government owned websites. The hacked websites includes National Committee on Ageing, Union Water Resources Planning and Investigation Authority and North-South Expressway etc.  In an email conversation, the hackers explained that this is their first ever attack on Vietnamese government websites and the attack will continue until the Vietnam government […]

Google Morocco and Google Saint Helena Hacked by ZombiE_KsA of PakBugs

It happened few days ago but its worth posting, the famous hackers going with the handle of ZombiE_KsA, Agd_Scorp and Z3r0Byt3 from PakBugs collectively hacked and defaced three official Google domains. One from Saint Helena and two of Google Morocco.  Google Morocco was hacked on 2013/01/22 and Google Saint Helena on 2013/01/29. The hackers left their deface page along […]

Brazilian Military Police & 26 Govt Websites Hacked by Ashiyane Digital Security Team

The internationally recognized hackers from Ashiyane Digital Security Team has attacked Brazilian cyber space, as a result 27 high profile Brazilian government got hacked, including the official websites of Brazilian Military Police and The Attorney General’s Office. While scrolling Zone-h, I got hold of latest cyber attack conducted by the group shows that all 27 websites were successfully defaced, deface page and […]

#OpBigBrother: Anonymous Hacks New Zealand’s MultiTrade Technology Website

The online hackavist group Anonymous has hacked and defaced the MultiTrade technology site for their ongoing operation #OpBigBrother. The hackers left their deface page and a message on the hacked website, explaining the reason for defacing and warning to the technology companies specializing in surveillance products and services. According to the deface message: Message to Companies involved in […]

126 More Websites Hacked By AnonGhost

The AnonGhost hacker who hacked 130+ Philippines sites has now been attacking random sites, this time the hacker has hacked and defaced 126 different European websites. The hacker contacted me with a list of hacked sites, now available on Pastebin where hacker left his deface page and a message on all of the targeted sites To the Governments of […]