After the Forbes website and twitter hack, Syrian Electronic Army leaked account details of over 1 Million Forbes readers. The leaked detail contains login info of users such as email id and password. The password exposed are encrypted but can be cracked by simply using hash cracking tools or also some online sites.
 All the leak was uploaded to a secure server with two versions of the dump, a text file and other was compressed version of the text file. They posted URL of the dump in a tweet.



 Referring to their other tweet it looks they managed to do a successful phishing/social engineering attack on staff writer Alex Knapp and grabbed some important login credentials, which furthermore lead to the massive Forbes user database leak.
The leaked user details look like this (data has been deliberately altered):




To recover the passwords from this exposed database you'll need a lot of computing power and also time.
Still as there are millions of email id's included in the leak can be targeted for spamming, SEO and even phishing/Social engineering attacks.

Forbes later responded to this breach in their facebook post:-
  Security message: Forbes.com was targeted in a digital attack and our publishing platform was compromised. Users' email addresses may have been exposed. The passwords were encrypted, but as a precaution, we strongly encourage Forbes readers and contributors to change their passwords on our system, and encourage them to change them on other websites if they use the same password elsewhere. We have notified law enforcement. We take this matter very seriously and apologize to the members of our community for this breach.

This breach makes a plus one to the list of victims suffered from 'SEA' hack. The Syrian Electronic Army previously has targeted big organizations such as Microsoft, CNN, Paypal, Ebay, Facebook.

Popular Supermarket Tesco suffered from a data breach. In this hack more than 2,000 of its customers’ accounts with their personal details were published on Pastebin.
The leaked data included the email addresses, plain text passwords and Tesco Clubcard point balances of 2,239 of the company’s customers.


 The hackers are said to have stolen Clubcard points from customers in a small numbers, which Tesco has agreed to provide refunds for those victims.

In the response of this breach, a Tesco spokesperson said, "We take the security of our customers' data extremely seriously and are urgently investigating these claims.”

“We have contacted all customers who may have been affected and are committed to ensuring that none of them miss out as a result of this. We will issue replacement vouchers to the very small numbers who are affected."

On the paper, the leak number looks small but it have raised the security issue for the Tesco. Tesco was suffered from breach a year ago. In that breach vouchers worth of over a hundred pounds was suddenly disappeared from the customers account.
                                    
According to some security researchers, the hackers compiled the stolen details from other websites and then found that Tesco customers used the same username and password combination as those on previous hacks.

The customers are advised to use a different password for every single online account they own. Also try to avoid the dictionary words which are easy to crack even by just guessing. Use a strong password which include lower case, upper case, numbers, special symbols which are harder to crack.

The federal government has arrested Charlie Shrem, one of the biggest names in the bitcoin community. Charlie Shrem is accused of using the cryptocurrency for alleged criminal activity.

He and co-defendant Robert M. Faiella (BTCKing) are accused of selling more than $1 million worth of bitcoins to people attempting to buy and sell illegal drugs on the Silk Road website, which the FBI took down few months back.

Faiella a.k.a BTCKing would receive Bitcoin orders and then proceeded them through the “Company,” a New York-based exchange platform where he could buy Bitcoin anonymously for direct cash without providing any identity info.


 Charlie Shrem was the man behind the “company,” He is also CEO of BitInstant, a platform for the Bitcoin exchanges, and a well-known Bitcoin evangelist in New York City.

Interesting thing is The famous twins, Winklevosses brothers are big investors in the BitInstant. The criminal case arrives at an uncomfortable time for the Winklevosses brothers. They too are set to testify Tuesday at the hearings.

The Winklevosses are perhaps best known for their tussle with Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg over "who really founded Facebook". However, they recently came out as major Bitcoin supporters and created a trust to begin publicly Bitcoins trades.
                                   Bitcoin is certainly best cryptocurrency with great features as micro payments, money transferring without any fee's or charges and the great exchange rate but use of the currency should be for good purpose. This arrest is warning for the peoples who use the popular cryptocurrency  for illegal business and criminal activities.