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South Korean national IDs 100% crackable
A new study demonstrates how personal information from 23,163 supposedly encrypted South Korean RRN IDs was decrypted with 100% efficiency
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Patreon: Some user names, e-mail and mailing addresses stolen
Patreon, the website that allows people to maintain regular donations to a website, an artist, or project, announced late Wednesday that it had sustained a security breach. The site said some registered names, e-mail addresses, and mailing addresses were accessed after someone managed to access a “debug version of our website” that at the time was accessible to the public. Jack Conte, the co-founder and CEO, wrote in a statement:
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X-Ray Scans Expose an Ingenious Chip-and-Pin Card Hack
THE CHIP-ENABLED CREDIT card system long used in Europe, a watered down version of which is rolling out for the first time in America, is meant to create a double check against fraud. In a so-called “chip-and-PIN” system, a would-be thief has to both steal a victim’s chip-enabled card and be able to enter the victim’s PIN. But French forensics researchers have dissected a real-world case in which criminals outsmarted...
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WikiLeaks publishes e-mail from CIA director’s hacked AOL account
WikiLeaks has released a cache of e-mails which the site says were retrieved from CIA Director John Brennan's AOL account. The e-mails include Brennan's SF86, a form that he had to fill out to get his current position and security clearance. The form, from 2008, "reveals a quite comprehensive social graph of the current Director of the CIA with a lot of additional non-governmental and professional/military career details," according to WikiLeaks' description of the document.
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Malware turns hundreds of security cameras into a botnet
Closed-circuit security cameras are supposed to make you safer, but some malware is turning them into weapons. Researchers at Incapsula have discovered code that turned about 900 Linux-based CCTV cameras into a botnet, which promptly bombarded an unnamed "large cloud service" that serves millions of people. The intruders compromised cameras from multiple brands, all of which had lax out-of-the-box security -- in some cases, they'd been hacked by more than one person.
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Anonymous threatens to release 1,000 names of KKK members
The hacking collective Anonymous has threatened to reveal the names of 1,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan, in a move which could cause immense embarrassment for supporters of the white supremacist organisation.
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Biggest-ever U.S. data breach hits 100 million people with bank accounts
U.S. banks and other financial institutions have suffered their largest ever data breach. U.S. officials confirmed the hack on Tuesday while bringing charges against four men for the theft of customer data of more than 100 million people. J.P. Morgan is among the banks that were hit, the company confirmed to Bloomberg. Hackers gained access to customer information of nine companies, according to an indictment from Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, including two newspapers.
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“Everything Was Completely Destroyed”: What It Was Like to Work at Sony After the Hack
Every morning, like so many of her colleagues, a television writer would drive from her Hollywood apartment to the Culver City, California, lot of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Greeting her at the gate most days was “this really, really nice woman who said, ‘Happy Monday! Happy Tuesday! Happy Wednesday!’ ” she says. “Like, welcome to the fake small town that you work in!” The guard would push a button. The gate would lift.
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One of the Largest Hacks Yet Exposes Data on Hundreds of Thousands of Kids
The personal information of almost 5 million parents and more than 200,000 kids was exposed earlier this month after a hacker broke into the servers of a Chinese company that sells kids toys and gadgets, Motherboard has learned. The hacked data includes names, email addresses, passwords, and home addresses of 4,833,678 parents who have bought products sold by VTech, which has almost $2 billion in revenue. The dump also includes the first names...
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Hyatt Hotels Customers' Credit Cards Possibly Hacked
The company is still investigating how its system was compromised.
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The BBC website and iPlayer service went down on December 31th morning following a major cyber attack raising panic on the social media.
The cyber attack started at 0700 GMT when all the visitors to the site started seeing an error message. Thousands of users complained on social media after seeing the error message, and the problems continued for around an hour before the situation was fully restored.
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Hackers publish contact info of 20,000 FBI employees
Hackers, making good on a threat, published contact information for 20,000 FBI employees Monday afternoon, just one day after posting similar data on almost 10,000 Department of Homeland Security employees. The hackers, tweeting from the account @DotGovs, claim they obtained the details by hacking into a Department of Justice database. The hackers boasted on Twitter, "FBI and DHS info is dropped and that's all we came to do, so now its time to go, bye folks! #FreePalestine."
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IRS Electronic Filing PIN Application Hacked
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Teen Allegedly Behind CIA, FBI Breaches: 'They're Trying to Ruin My Life.'
The months-long series of hacks and pranks by a group of alleged teenage hackers on the US government and its high-level officials might have finally come to an end. Police authorities in the UK, working in conjunction with the FBI, have arrested a teenager who they believe is behind the cyberattacks that started last year, when a group of hackers broke into the AOL email account of CIA Director John Brennan. Officials have not released the identity...
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Hackers Post Confidential Records of 4,000 Palm Beach County Cops, Prosecutors, and Judges
About 4,000 confidential records — the purported home addresses of police officers, lawyers, and judges — have been published on the website PBSOTalk.com, and the former owner of the website is blaming it on Russian computer hackers. Mark Dougan is a former Palm Beach Sheriff's Office deputy. After leaving the force in 2008, he made it his mission to expose corruption within the department.
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Life after the Ashley Madison affair
It’s six months since hackers leaked the names of 30 million people who had used the infidelity website Ashley Madison. Resignations, divorces and suicides followed. Tom Lamont sifts through the wreckage
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Dwolla Hit with Fine by CFPB Over Phishing Vulnerability
Dwolla fined by CFPB over phishing vulnerability
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Hacker claims he helped swing Mexican election
A Bloomberg Businessweek report centered on a Colombian online campaign strategist alleges he hacked political rivals to engineer results in elections across nine Latin American countries. The man, Andrés Sepúlveda, is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence for offences related to hacking during Colombia's 2014 presidential election. But talking to Bloomberg, he alleges that his involvement in politics in the region runs...
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Database allegedly containing ID numbers of 50m Turks posted online
A database posted online allegedly contains the personal information of 49 million people on the Turkish citizenship database, potentially making more than half of the population of the country vulnerable to identity theft and massive privacy violations. The database, which has not been verified as authentic, was posted to a server apparently hosted in Romania on Monday with an introduction reading “Who would have imagined that backwards ideologies, cronyism and rising...
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FBI Says a Mysterious Hacking Group Has Had Access to US Govt Files for Years
The feds warned that “a group of malicious cyber actors,” whom security experts believe to be the government-sponsored hacking group known as APT6, “have compromised and stolen sensitive information from various government and commercial networks” since at least 2011, according to an FBI alert obtained by Motherboard.
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