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San Francisco’s Verizon Enterprise solution’s computer security wing suffered an abrupt massive hack of 1.5 million customers’ records. Brian Krebs who is an ace computer security writer stated that the whole database was on sale for $100,000 at a discreet underground cybercrime forum. The offer also holds increments of 100,000 records for $10,000 per piece. […]
TeaMp0isoN is back — This time with a new approach and a new hack TeaMp0isoN, a grey-hat security research collective, managed to breach the Business Class Customer Support Portal of TWC (Time Warner Cable) with SQL injection attack. The hackers not only defaced the website but also snatched database comprising of over 4,000 records. The […]
Pro-rape and controversy child Roosh blames Hacktivists for hacking his family’s address and spreading hoax news The controversial ‘neo-masculinist” Roosh has claimed to have become the victim of online hacktivism as he was targeted by an Anonymous-linked hacker group. It was announced on Thursday that Roosh V, real name Daryush Valizadeh has called off Public […]
The Blink Hacker Group associated with Anonymous hackers claims to leak sensitive data from 100 Thai Prison Databases Last week a group of hackers (Blink Hacker Group) claiming to be associated with the infamous hacktivist collective Anonymous knocked down 20 Thai Corrections Department websites and also leaked 1GB of Thai supreme court data. However, yesterday, the Blink […]
An unmodified default setting in Apache Web Servers revealed crucial details related to TOR traffic that passed through that server. It is a well-known fact that the hidden areas (or underworld) of the Internet such as The Dark Web can only be accessed through specialized services like I2p or Tor because these services are restricted […]
America’s Largest Police Union Faces Embarrassment as Hackers Post Private Details of Officers Online America’s biggest police union the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), which represents around 330,000 law enforcement officers all over the US, is in the news for all the wrong reasons. Reportedly, the names/addresses of officers, sensitive forum posts related to Barack […]
Ten days ago Anonymous launched operation #BoycottThailand and on the tenth day, the notorious hacktivist group had released 1GB data. The data reportedly belongs to the Supreme Court of Thailand. It seems like the data, which was uploaded yesterday, was stolen last Wednesday when the Anonymous launched DDoS attacks against hundreds of Thai court websites. […]
It has now been proven that almost anyone and any company can get hacked including the firm that manufactures car breathalyzers. A hacker dubbed as ROR[RG] reportedly hacked into LMG Holdings’ data and dumped some of its internal documents on Dark Web. The hacker acts as the moderator of the newly re-booted Hell hacking forum. Among […]
The IT security researcher “Chris Vickery” who exposed MacKeeper and Hzone data breach has now discovered a hack of database belonging to Hello kitty website having over details inside. But, Hello kitty is not the only website to have suffered the data breach, another website “sanriotown.com” had the similar fate, but the number of account […]
Newsweek has revealed that Spotify (One of the giants of the Music industry) faced a hacking attack last week and thousands of email ids and passwords were leaked by hackers. Newsweek interacted within 9 of the users whose accounts were leaked and posted publicly on 2nd November. Out of those 9 users, a user claimed […]
The online hacktivist Anonymous breached into the subdomain of the National Agriculture Library (NAL) and leaked personal details of staff and other users. The attack was conducted 28th October 2015 under the banner of operation OpMonsanto in which NAL, a subdomain of the official website of the U.S. Department of Agriculture was under attack. Anonymous hackers […]
A security researcher (Troy Hunt), who owns the website (haveibeenpwned) have discovered a possible breach of webhosting service 000Webhost servers. Basically, hunt’s site provides information on whether a user’s data has ever been breached online. So, an unknown user recently contacted the researcher and told him about a data breach taking place in an attack […]
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 […]
Some recent data dump released by WikiLeaks on their website contains documents infected with malicious software that can easily infect anyone accessing them, according to the discovery made by an autonomous data researcher Josh Wieder. Wieder, apart from a researcher, is a system administrator who goes out of his way to inspect files and documents […]
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 […]
On 29th July 2015, we reported how a group of anti-abortionist hackers hacked into the servers of Planned Parenthood, a pro-abortion organization. Now, the same hackers have conducted a massive DDoS attack on the organization’s website forcing it to go offline. The cyber attack was apparently conducted in the wake of controversial videos revealing that the organization […]
The servers of Planned Parenthood, the non-profit reproductive health care organization, has recently been hacked by anti-abortionist hacker group. While the compromised data has been leaked onto the Internet. According to the Planned Parenthood’s official website, they have been providing a common-sense approach to women’s wellbeing and health for last 100 years. They are health […]
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 […]
Reportedly, login credentials of around 47 U.S government institutions across 89 different domains have been leaked. Apparently, in the earlier part of 2015, 12 out of these 47 agencies (including the Department of State & Energy) allowed access to their computer network without two-factor authentication to some of their users. Resultantly, “the presence of these […]
Summary: Jon Eric Ritzheimer, the man behind organizing an anti-Islamic protest in Phoenix, Arizona is now claiming that he has been hacked by pro-Islamic hackers. Ritzheimer, who planned the controversial draw Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest rally in Arizona is upset and fears that his life is in danger because someone hacked him and his family and leaked […]
Japan’s national pension system was hacked due to which personal data of 1.25million people got leaked. On Monday, the Japan Pension Service announced that the hacking of its National Pension system has affected user data of around 1.25million people. This scandal exposed the nation’s botched handling of the pension records of its citizens. According to […]