Showing posts with label hack. Show all posts
Syrian Electronic Army Hacked Official twitter accounts of FC Barcelona
It includes The English version of twitter Feed of FC Barcelona @FCBarcelona, Twitter Feed of FC Barcelona in Spanish @FCBarcelona_es and Twitter Feed of FC Barcelona in Catalan @FCBarcelona_cat, The pro hackers group managed to tweet from all these three accounts.
FC Barcelona is funded by Qatar Foundation (QF) which is chaired by Qatar's First Lady, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser. Syrian Electronic Army warned about QF funding's in a tweet and said "its full of blood" indirectly accusing Qatar Foundation for terrorism.
The tweets were removed quickly also according to SEA's other tweet, "Forbes mission is not over yet."
800,000 Customers’ detail stolen in Data Breach at French Telecom ‘Orange’
Orange Telecommunications, One of the world’s largest mobile operator service suffered massive data breach.
The French multinational telecommunication company announced recently, it was targeted by unknown hackers on 16th January 2014, who allegedly gained access to the accounts of up to 800,000 customers of Orange website.
According to some sources report, the company warned their customers in an email that their Client Area website orange.fr was hacked and user details of 3% customers have been stolen, but the passwords are not affected.
The user detail contains information such as names, mailing address, email, landline and mobile phone numbers.
The company warned, with the user details lost in this attack, hackers can perform phishing attacks, allowing them to steal personal data, including bank account details and passwords by sending emails that look as if they have come from official sources.
Orange has confirmed the data breach, and after the discovery of the attack, they closed "My Account" page from the official Orange website quickly for a few hours as a precaution. Orange also reported that it had found the source of the attack and has filed an official complaint with authorities.
CEO Stéphane Richard must be feeling awkward because as per his speech, protecting client data was “fundamental” for the company. As precaution Orange customers should change the login credentials of the affected accounts.
The French multinational telecommunication company announced recently, it was targeted by unknown hackers on 16th January 2014, who allegedly gained access to the accounts of up to 800,000 customers of Orange website.
The user detail contains information such as names, mailing address, email, landline and mobile phone numbers.
The company warned, with the user details lost in this attack, hackers can perform phishing attacks, allowing them to steal personal data, including bank account details and passwords by sending emails that look as if they have come from official sources.
Orange has confirmed the data breach, and after the discovery of the attack, they closed "My Account" page from the official Orange website quickly for a few hours as a precaution. Orange also reported that it had found the source of the attack and has filed an official complaint with authorities.
CEO Stéphane Richard must be feeling awkward because as per his speech, protecting client data was “fundamental” for the company. As precaution Orange customers should change the login credentials of the affected accounts.
Syrian Electronic Army Hacked PayPal and Ebay.
The Pro hacker group "Syrian Electronic Army" hacked two big economic sites PayPal and Ebay saturday. SEA easily managed to get into The Domain Registry of Paypal and Ebay which is Managed by Mark Monitor.
SEA Hackers defaced ebay.co.uk and paypal.co.uk by making few changes in DNS record and redirecting it to other server. Both the sites was showing the same image:-
According to their tweet, this hack was For denying Syrian citizens the ability to purchase online products using Paypal. 'It is purely a hacktivist operation and no user accounts or data affected by this breach,' The group said in other tweet.
The group also hacked the email account Paul Whitted, Sr. Manager, Site Engineering Center at eBay. Looks like "SEA" have much more deep control in these sites. Currently the situation is under control and both the sites are working normally. In their previous hacks CNN and Microsoft were victim of the attacks.
As it was a DNS Hijacking attack its sure that there's no harm to the both site users.
PayPal Responded on the recent hack and tweeted, "We’re aware our UK & France marketing pages were redirected briefly for a few users. Situation is resolved; NO customer info was compromised".
SEA Hackers defaced ebay.co.uk and paypal.co.uk by making few changes in DNS record and redirecting it to other server. Both the sites was showing the same image:-
The group also hacked the email account Paul Whitted, Sr. Manager, Site Engineering Center at eBay. Looks like "SEA" have much more deep control in these sites. Currently the situation is under control and both the sites are working normally. In their previous hacks CNN and Microsoft were victim of the attacks.
As it was a DNS Hijacking attack its sure that there's no harm to the both site users.
PayPal Responded on the recent hack and tweeted, "We’re aware our UK & France marketing pages were redirected briefly for a few users. Situation is resolved; NO customer info was compromised".
