TeamGhostShell Hackers Hit Chinese University, Forex Trading Site
Members of TeamGhostShell recently published over 150,000 user names, hashed passwords and e-mail addressees stolen from an online education Web site for China's Hangzhou Dianzi University, along with thousands of user names, hashed passwords, e-mail addresses and private forum messages from FXTrader.eu, a European foreign exchange trading site.
"The group said it attacked the technical university's online education site, which is currently offline, because 'of the hilarious irony,'" writes SecurityNewsDaily's Matt Liebowitz.
"Other data found in the data dump contains the names of 705 database tables, and 235 mobile phone numbers and email addresses of the university’s IT staff," writes Softpedia's Eduard Kovacs. "The hackers have demonstrated once again that MD5 hashes are usually easy to decrypt and posted some of the passwords in clear text, which is why we will not provide a link to the data leak."
