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 Hackers Changes Millions of Passwords to " password " ! Passwords from over 3,000,000 user accounts were apparently set to "password" late last night in a wide-spread hack that affected hundreds of news, retail and Web 2.0 sites. Most affected users are completely unaware of the attack. According to current statistics, 62% of affected users would not notice such a change as their password was already "password". Several sites have reported that they are taking steps to protect compromised accounts. In addition, many sites are creating a new rule to ban using the word "password" as a password. Users are reacting fiercely to the hack but even more so to the ban many sites are putting on one of the world's most popular passwords. Online riots are to be expected. The hacker group named "Obvious" has claimed credit for last evening's attack. Thousands of hacked Twitter and Facebook accounts posted the message "We are a...

Now it's official: HBA-crew v2, was hacked! Ip 'were logged, Database is public! An official statement is as early as the first April before. But was it so funny but not that it was serious: Hi, Now we can not hide it anymore. geloaded Since yesterday evening by a leak in the server the entire database of HBA, packaged and put on various public OCH's been. Because, unfortunately, still in some areas, no IP logging was disabled, we ask you immediately to secure your systems. It's just a matter of time. Starting with the great and stopped at the small. The forum is in the background already reorganized. According to the internals using Co.Admin TheSaint was - made possible the leak. No one can be trusted - unfortunately. Bitter ! be deceived by the private Co. Admin thereby. Well let's look at how the index looked like: "Hacked by a pro of the scene" The Happy Ninja's are the again the scene on its head: First of all, here is the plain tex...

The Hindi Times Hacked by TriCk & RoCk - ZHC & TeaMp0isoN Site: http://www.thehinditimes.com/ Mirror: http://zone-h.org/mirror/id/13410390

Bh-News Has Been Hacked By Dinelson US  Hacked Users : Website : www.bh-news.com

Channel.facebook.com cross-site-scripting (XSS) vulnerability by Edgard Chammas Security researcher Edgard Chammas, has submitted on 02/04/2011 a cross-site-scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting 1.61.channel.facebook.com, which at the time of submission ranked 2 on the web according to Alexa. It is currently unfixed. Link :  http://1.61.channel.facebook.com/iframe/11?r=http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/1.js%22%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(%22The%20Hacker%20News%22)%3C/script%3E%3Cscript%3E

Crif.org defaced by participants in # Anonymous The website of the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France or the Representative Council for Jewish Institutions of France was defaced by the hackers on steroids over in Anonymous’ operation palestine or #oppalestine. At the time of this writing the website www.crif.org is still defaced. here’s a picture to immortalize the action.

Anonymous successfully taken down http://www.sonypictures.com/ and http://www.sonypictures.co.uk The Sony PS3 console was "hacked" or more appropriately, jail broken, by iPhone hacker, Geohot. Anonymous managed to reverse engineer his own PlayStation 3 to run home brew applications on it.And then later released the method to the public, through his site, geohot.com Sony hit Anonymous with a lawsuit and demanded social media sites, including YouTube to hand over IP addresses of people who visited Geohot's social pages/videos.Pay pal have granted access to Sony for them to view Geohot's Pay Pal account. The judge of the case has given permission to Sony to view the IP addresses of everyone who visited geohot.com Sony are also after another group of hackers for the same case. The PS3 hack which GeoHot released can be compared to the "unlocking" of a phone. i.e. Once you purchase the phone, it's yours, you can do whatever it is you want with it. L...