Last weekend seems to have been one of the worst ever when it comes to online safety. In another incident over the weekend, online shoe and apparel outlet Zappos.com has suffered a massive breach, exposing personally identifiable data of up to 24 million customers. Zappos, one of the Amazon subsidiaries, is believed to have exposed the names, [...]
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Amazon subsidiary, Zappos hacked, 24 million customer details exposed!
Posted: 16th January 2012 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Data Privacy, NewsTags: Amazon, credit cards, personally identifiable information, PII, shoes and apparel outlet, Tony Hsieh, Zappos.com
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Pokeu leaks 24,000 account details after hacking David Morgan
Posted: 16th January 2012 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Data PrivacyTags: David Morgan, hacker, Pastebin, PII, Pokeu, US
Hackers Sunday hacked the website of US based clothing and items supplier David Morgan. The hack also involved over 24,000 accounts being leaked online by a hacker that goes by the name pokeu. All accounts have encrypted passwords. As has been the case in many recent hacks Pokeu, has posted all the account details on Pastebin. He has [...]
Phishers leveraging Google docs for attacks
Posted: 16th January 2012 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Data Privacy, ScamTags: ANZ, Australia, Google docs, Phishing, scammers
SophosLabs has come across two spam campaigns this weekend which rely on Google Docs as a “full-service” phishing back end. These recent phishes target two very different groups of users. The first campaign is aimed at internet users of ANZ, one of the ‘big four’ Australian banks; the second is aimed at online users of [...]
Israel arrests 18 year old man for using stolen credit card details for shopping
Posted: 9th January 2012 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Law & OrderTags: credit card details, Israel, oxOmar
In the wake of the recent incident of stealing data of over 400k credit cards in Israel, the local police has arrested a person who used these details to purchase gadgets online. Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Dany Ayalon last week said that such hacking incidents would be treated like acts of terrorism and seems to be [...]
Israel to respond to hackers militarily
Posted: 8th January 2012 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Data Privacy, NewsTags: cyber attack, hacker, Israel, oxOmar
The recent leak of over 400k total credit cards by a hacker called oxOmar and later the hacker’s challenge to catch him hasn’t gone down well the throat of Israel. The Israeli government has seen this incident as an act of terrorism. According to Israel, this incident was an attempt to disrupt the country’s banking system and cause [...]
Saudi hacker, oxOmar challenges Israeli authorities
Posted: 7th January 2012 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Law & OrderTags: hacker, Israel, Israeli, oxOmar, Pastebin
Saudi Arabian hacker, 0xOmar, has fired back at Israeli authorities over the ‘disinformation’ from the government in attempts to ‘cover this up and make it end’. The hacker taunted, “From here, I challenge the world to find me, let’s the game begin. You have 2 weeks. If I come back and post another message after [...]
Stratfor official emails hacked
Posted: 7th January 2012 by infosecindia in Data Loss, NewsTags: hack, STARTFOR, youtube
As if the recent data breach was not even for STRATFOR, some one has now hacked the official email message and started sending it out to the exposed clients list. In response to the emails STRATFOR has released another update via its facebook page and just to validate and authenticate the facebook communication, the company has also uploaded a video on [...]
More Israeli credit card details leaked by oxOmar
Posted: 6th January 2012 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Data Privacy, NewsTags: credit card details, DinnerDash, hacker, IsraCards, Israel, oxOmar, Pastebin
Saudi Arabian hacker, 0xOmar has released another dump of Israeli credit cards and continued to urge people to use them; as well as sending out further warnings. This time around the hacker exposed over 200k credit card details. oxOmar warns of much severe and larger hacks in the near future. The hacker also makes note that the Israeli government is working hard to [...]
Indian hackers expose source code of Symantec products
Posted: 6th January 2012 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Data Privacy, NewsTags: CBI, Google, hacker, India, Lords of Dharmaraja, Norton, Pasteb, Symantec, Yama Tough
India based hacker group that goes by the name ‘Lords of Dharmaraja’ has posted the source code of two of Symantec products on Pastebin. The document has already been taken down from the site. A hacker called “Yama Tough” (@YamaTough), who appears to be acting as a spokesperson for the gang, posted the content to [...]
Hackers expose 100 million Chinese Internet username and passwords
Posted: 5th January 2012 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Data PrivacyTags: 17173.com, China, CSDN.net, data breach, duowan.com, Kaixin001, kaixin001.com, Renren, renren.com, Sina Weibo, Tianya, tianya.cn, weibo.com
China is often blamed for the increasing number of cyber attacks leading to massive data breaches across the world. However, in the week of 21-26 December, Chinese people had to undergo the same trauma that millions of people worldwide had to face in the last one year. Yes, a massive data breach across China’s most [...]