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Hackers
T-Mobile says hackers may have stolen 15 million customers' data
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2015-10-06 08:26
T-Mobile US Inc said personal data of about 15 million of its U.S. subscribers may have been stolen in a breach at a unit of Experian Plc, which processes the telecom carrier's credit applications.
The records include names, dates of birth, addresses and encrypted fields with Social Security number and ID number, as well as additional information used in T-Mobile's own credit assessment.
T-Mobile had 58.9 million customers in total as of June 30. Payment card or banking information were not acquired, T-Mobile Chief Executive John Legere said in a letter on Thursday.
The SEC Says Hackers Made Millions Insider Trading By Simply Stealing Press Releases
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2015-08-12 00:50
Sometimes, the simplest plans are the smartest. And the most illegal.
That’s certainly the case with a group of accused criminals, including six American stock traders and two Ukrainian hackers, along with 23 other defendants—who stand accused of running a very, very lucrative scheme for almost five years, according to the AP.
Russian hackers exploit unusual Java zero-day to hit unnamed NATO country
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2015-07-16 09:44
Cyber-espionage group 'Pawn Storm' has been exploiting an unusual Java zero-day vulnerability to carry out drive-by-download attacks on a NATO country and US defence company, according to Trend Micro.
How OPM hackers tapped the mother lode of espionage data
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2015-06-22 07:14
Government officials have been vague in their testimony about the data breaches—there was apparently more than one—at the Office of Personnel Management. But on Thursday, officials from OPM, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of the Interior revealed new information that indicates at least two separate systems were compromised by attackers within OPM's and Interior's networks. The first was the Electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF) system, an entity hosted for OPM at the Department of the Interior's shared service data center.
This Is How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked the Washington Post
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2015-05-14 20:33
The Syrian Electronic Army, the notorious hacking group that has hit several high-profile media companies such as the Associated Press, The New York Times, and CNN, hacked the Washington Post mobile site on Thursday afternoon.
For a brief period of time, visitors to the Post’s mobile site (m.washingtonpost.com) saw pop-up alerts with messages such as “You’ve been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army.”
