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Hackers hit Arizona law enforcement for third time

"For the third time in less than 10 days, confidential information from Arizona's law enforcement community was hacked and posted online, with the same basic group of hackers behind the effort. The information, posted late Thursday, was shared Friday by Anonymous, a loose collective of hackers. Some of these hackers were affiliated with LulzSec, a related group that said last Saturday it was disbanding." (Technolog from msnbc.com - Hackers hit Arizona law enforcement for third time) ›
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MasterCard website is target of cyber attack

"The credit card company’s website could not be accessed for large parts of the day, security experts said. Twitter user called ‘Ibom Hacktivist’ boasted the attack was for its refusal to process donations for the whistleblowing site WikiLeaks. ‘A grouMasterCard.com DOWN!!!, thats what you get when you mess with @wikileaks @Anon_Central and the e ›
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Richmond-based supermarket's website hit by cyberattack

"Richmond-based T & T Supermarket Inc. said today that its website was hit by a cyberattack that may have compromised the personal data of 58,000 people. Hackers may have accessed databases of customer information, including names, passwords, ages, genders, email addresses, street addresses and phone numbers. T & T does not collect credit card information, ›
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Hackers break into Arizona police computers

"Computer hackers who previously broke into a U.S. Senate server and brought down the CIA web site struck an Arizona police web site on Thursday, releasing dozens of internal documents over the Internet. Lulz Security, saying it opposed a tough anti-immigration law in Arizona, said it was releasing documents that related to border control and other law enf ›
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Dropbox Left User Accounts Unlocked for 4 Hours Sunday

"At a time when hackers are on a tear looting information willy-nilly from insecure sites on the Web, Dropbox did the unthinkable Sunday — it allowed anyone in the world to access any one of its 25 million customers’ online storage lockers — simply by typing in any password." (Dropbox Left User Accounts Unlocked for 4 Hours Sunday | Threat Level | Wir ›
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Hackers attack Malaysian government websites

"Hackers have disrupted Malaysian government websites, authorities said Thursday, following threats by anti-censorship "Anonymous" activists and a cyberattack on the CIA by an allied group. The strike against 51 government websites, which disrupted at least 41 of them according to Malaysia's Internet watchdog, came after the Anonymous group sabotaged Turki ›
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Cyber attack: LulzSec go for twofer hacking U.S. Senate and Bethesda Softworks

"The loose-knit hacking collective LulzSec, which is responsible for numerous recent attacks on several big-name games developers including Sony and Nintendo, yesterday released two statements on its website claiming responsibility for successful cyber attacks against the U.S. Senate and Bethesda Softworks." Sou ›
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Citi credit card security breach discovered

"Citigroup says it has discovered a security breach in which a hacker accessed personal information from hundreds of thousands of accounts. Citigroup said the breach occurred last month and affected about 200,000 customers." Source: Citi credit card security breach discovered - Jun. 9, 2011 ›
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Hackers launch fresh attacks on Bahrain websites

"Hackers have launched a fresh series of attacks on government websites after the country was granted the right to stage the Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix. Officials say cyber criminals in Iran and Saudi Arabia, with the support of local groups, have stepped up a campaign to spread anti-government propaganda." Source: Hackers launch fresh attacks on Bahrain ›
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Lockheed Says Hacker Used Stolen SecurID Data

"Lockheed Martin said Friday that it had proof that hackers breached its network two weeks ago partly by using data stolen from a vendor that supplies coded security tokens to tens of millions of computer users. " Source: Lockheed Says Hacker Used Stolen SecurID Data - NYTimes.com ›
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Infragard Atlanta, an FBI affiliate, hacked by LulzSec

"In a self-titled hack attack called 'F**k FBI Friday' the hacking group known as LulzSec has published details on users and associates of the non-profit organization known as Infragard. Infragard describes itself as a non-profit focused on being an interface between the private sector and individuals with the FBI. LulzSec published 180 usernames, hashed pa ›
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Anonymous makes off with scanned passports from Iran, 10k e-mails

"In the run-up to the June 15th anniversary of the 2009 Iranian presidential election—elections met with widespread protests amidst widespread claims that the result was rigged—Anonymous has stepped up its electronic attacks on Iran. In a break from the loosely affiliated group's more common denial-of-service attacks, the group announced that it has sto ›
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Massive Gmail phishing attack hits senior U.S. officials

"Hundreds of personal Gmail accounts, including those of some senior U.S. government officials, were hacked as a result of a massive phishing scheme originating from China, Google said Wednesday. The account hijackings were a result of stolen passwords, likely by malware installed on victims' computers or through victims' responses to e-mails from maliciou ›