The personal information of over 4,000 banking executives was stolen from a compromised server at the Federal Reserve and then posted online by hackers associated with Anonymous. The breach came soon after a similar attack against the Department of Energy where more personally identifiable information for hundreds of employees was compromised. Read More
Anonymous Warns They Will be Active in 2013, but McAfee Report Predicts their Decline
Over the final weekend of 2012 hacktivist group Anonymous released a video and statement that they will be busy in 2013 citing the notable attacks that occurred over the last year while warning of the operations they are continuing and the new ones they are planning for this year. While the group vows to continue
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AntiSec Hackers Claim Data from 12 million Apple Users Stolen from FBI
The hactivist group AntiSec, associated with Anonymous, released a list of one million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) while claiming that it came from a file containing the personal information of 12 million Apple device owners which they hacked from a laptop belonging to an FBI agent. While the one million UDIDs appear to be real, there is not yet evidence
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2011: The Year of the Data Breach
While companies focus their fraud prevention efforts on direct third party fraud, they had better be spending some time on mitigating the risks of account takeover. In a year that began with high profile attacks on Sony and email marketing firm Epsilon, ended with hactivist campaigns and posting sensitive information stolen from Stratfor, all while Federal
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Anonymous Continues Holiday Hacking Spree
Hactivist groups Anonymous and LulzSec continue their holiday hacking routine called LulzXmas after stealing sensitive data from SpecialForces.com and Stratfor, a global intelligence firm, and then posting the breached information online. Read More
Anonymous Hacks UN, Threatens Banks
The high profile data breaches continue in 2011 as Anonymous posted 1,000 user names and passwords taken from the United Nations. A hacker was able to access the server containing information for the United Nations Development Programme, the attack may have been just to demonstrate ability or to embarrass the UN as many of the
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