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News and interesting facts about data theft and hacking from around the world.
During an investigation, the BKA has discovered a collection of 500 million user records on the dark side of the web. In addition to user names, the database also contained email addresses and associated passwords, which could be used to create a perfect opportunity for fraudsters to try to gain access to social networking services. The latest data in the database is from December 2016.
And that’s something the company that makes them doesn’t know: an interactive teddy bear company, TeddyBear, used CloudPets to make the gadgets talk and react, only the latter’s servers weren’t very secure. The result was devastating: a total of 800,000 users’ logins and personal information were exposed online.
The CIA has one of the largest collections of programs globally for hacking other applications. According to WikiLeaks, the investigative agency has at least 8,000 apps that can easily hack into Android, Windows, and macOS, among others. Exactly which apps and how they work will be revealed soon, courtesy of WikiLeaks.
It’s a pretty old story, a year-old story: the Witcher games forum was hacked in March 2016. However, it was not known what the intruders had taken until now. It has finally been revealed that they took the personal data of a vast number of users, 1.9 million users to be precise, including email addresses, usernames, and passwords.
If there’s one hacker attack we can identify with, it’s this: the Anonymous team attacked and disabled servers on the dark web, most of them for helping to stream and exchange child porn content. A “server” called Freedom Hero II was rendered entirely inaccessible during the attack.
A hacker called Stackoverflowin has hacked no less than 150,000 printers worldwide. The programmer created a script that exploited long-standing but unpatched security flaws in the drives. The hack did not pose a real threat but rather highlighted that networks can be attacked through elements that you might not think of at first glance.
German Telekom moved one of its services, but a minor glitch in the process caused users’ data to get mixed up during the software upgrade. For example, the incorrect synchronization caused a different email address to appear in users’ accounts instead of their set. The service provider has detected the error and has already fixed it – but still recommended a password change for customers.
The car-sharing website Mitfahrzentrale.de is popular in Germany, but now users will not like it so much: it has been discovered that a considerable amount of personal data has been stolen from the site. What’s more, the case was discovered in March last year, but only now. Five hundred thousand bank account numbers, 100,000 email addresses, and 15,000 phone numbers were obtained.
The website, modeled on Linkedln, is a recruitment agency for programmers, which is why it is so embarrassing that almost its entire user database has been accessed. The attackers obtained eight million records, and the list has since appeared in several places online. Once again, users are advised to change their passwords immediately.
In April last year, the forum of encryption solutions provider Etherum was hacked, and more than 16,000 user IDs, passwords, email addresses, and other data were compromised. The company is undoubtedly embarrassed by the leak, but at least it can be said that the data was adequately protected; for example, passwords only had the hash ID on the system.