A group broke into a Fox News Twitter account and posted fake news claiming US President Barack Obama has been assassinated.
Mashable reports that the group responsible is called ‘Scriptkiddies.’ It boasted about breaking into @foxnewspolitics. The group then made several tweets on Fox News' account, claiming that Obama had been shot twice at a Ross' restaurant in Iowa by an unnamed shooter.
Singer Amy Winehouse’s official website has been hacked by a group called Swagsec, reports digitalspy.com.
The home page has expletives flashing all over with "Swagger Security - Winehouse = No Swag" written across and they have also posted an image of rapper Lil B.
The hackers, according to their tweeter feed, are South-Africa-based and describe the troubled singer as a "Racist crackhead devil b****" and say they plan to take back the Internet from the white devil." At the moment, the official site is being redirected to her facebook page.
A group of British hackers today took down al-Qaeda's communication network and websites, preventing the terrorist organization from posting online messages and videos.
Thirteen years after “Hack Heaven,” Stephen Glass’ fabricated feature about a lonely teenage hacker who was hired by a major software company, was published, the story has practically come true.
Names, email addresses and passwords were among the sensitive details of defence personnel stolen after website Defence News was hacked earlier this month.
Affected users would include military personnel and "defense decision-makers", according to the website's description of its reader base. Gannett Government Media alerted readers to the breach yesterday after it noticed the attack on 7 June.
Hackers today released data they said was from the governments of Zimbabwe and Brazil, entertainment giants Universal Music Group and Viacom, and a municipal government in Australia.
Meanwhile, the Anonymous group also reportedly temporarily shut down a tourism Web site for Orlando, Fla., with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack today to protest the arrest of Food not Bombs volunteers for serving food in public in Orlando without a permit.
According to a report Tuesday by local daily The Straits Times, Malaysian employees from business consultancy firm, The Black Wilder Group (TBWG), stumbled on what H3x4 Crew had done while monitoring the group for an "unrelated case". They saw screenshots of the hacked NParks sited posted on a temporary Web site, which was subsequently removed and uploaded again on kenahack.com, a site that reveals hacking exploits, the article stated.
TBWG said it contacted Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs after its discovery as it believed confidential data had been leaked.
A member of a publicity-seeking hacker group that sabotaged websites over the past two months and is dissolving itself says his group isn't disbanding under pressure from the FBI or enemy hackers.
"We're not quitting because we're afraid of law enforcement," the LulzSec member said in a conversation with The Associated Press over the Internet voice program Skype. "The press are getting bored of us, and we're getting bored of us."
US videogame giant Electronic Arts (EA) has revealed that hackers had looted user data in "a highly sophisticated" attack.
A computer network hosting BioWare Edmonton's Neverwinter Nights game forums was hit by hackers who made off with users' names, passwords, email addresses, birth dates and other personal information, EA said at its website. "The server system associated with the Neverwinter Nights forums was the target of a highly sophisticated and unlawful cyber attack," EA said.
