Hacker
LulzSec’s spokesman and hacktivist “Topiary” arrested
July 28, 2011Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- Scotland Yard announced Wednesday that it had arrested a 19-year-old founder of the infamous hacker group LulzSec. The suspect supposedly goes by the Internet handle "Topiary" took part in a...
Travelodge customer data stolen
June 24, 2011Travelodge UK is investigating an apparent hacking attack on its customer database. The hotel chain issued a warning to users of its online service to be on the lookout for spam e-mails. Full details of the security breach were not immediately available...
Google e-mail accounts compromised by 'Chinese hackers'
June 02, 2011Hackers in China have compromised personal e-mail accounts of hundreds of top US officials, military personnel and journalists, Google has said. The US company said a campaign to obtain passwords originated in Jinan and was aimed at monitoring e-mail...
Final Fantasy maker Square Enix hacked
May 14, 2011Hackers have broken into two websites belonging to Japanese video games maker Square Enix. The company confirmed that the e-mail addresses of up to 25,000 customers who had registered for product updates may have been stolen as a result. Resumes of...
Hacker group Anonymous denies Sony attack
May 08, 2011Online vigilante group Anonymous has denied being behind an attack that led to the theft of personal data from around 77 million PlayStation users. The secretive "hacker collective" had earlier been singled-out by Sony as the possible guilty...
Sony hires detectives after gamers lose personal data
May 04, 2011Sony has hired investigators after a breach of security, in which the personal data of more than 100 million online game users was compromised. Cyber-security detectives from Guidance Software and Data Forte, among others, have been brought on board...
Sony warns of almost 25 million extra user detail theft
May 03, 2011A further 25 million gamers have had their personal details stolen as a result of security breaches at Sony. As well as the Playstation Network, which has been down since 20 April, the company has now taken its Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) service...
Moscow hacker who put porn on billboard gets jail term
March 25, 2011A hacker who placed pornography on a video billboard above Moscow's inner ring road has been jailed for one and a half years, Russian media report. Igor Blinnikov, 40, uploaded the video on 14 January last year from his home computer in Novorossiysk...
Microsoft welcomes Xbox Kinect 'hackers'
February 22, 2011Microsoft is to open up its Xbox Kinect technology to allow amateur software developers to experiment with it. The company is to release a software development kit in the spring, which will give developers access to the secrets behind the technology...
Anonymous hackers attack US security firm HBGary
February 07, 2011Online activist group Anonymous has targeted an American security firm that claimed to know the identities of its leaders. The secretive organisation is being investigated in several countries over strikes on Visa, PayPal and others. Over the weekend...