[ISN] SwaggSec' claims hack of China Telecom, Warner Bros.

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 03:56:32 -0500 (CDT)
https://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/060412-39swaggsec39-claims-hack-of-china-259796.html

By Jeremy Kirk
IDG News Service
June 03, 2012

A hacking group is claiming to have breached the networks of Warner 
Bros. and China Telecom, releasing documents and publishing login 
credentials.

Swagger Security, or "SwaggSec," announced the breach Sunday on 
Pastebin, providing a link to the files on The Pirate Bay. The group has 
been active since early this year when it claimed credit for stealing 
user names and passwords for an ordering system belonging to the 
contract manufacturer Foxconn, which builds devices for technology 
companies including Apple.

SwaggSec said the China Telecom data is 900 user names and passwords for 
administrators on the company's network. The information was obtained 
through an insecure SQL server, SwaggSec said in its post. The group 
said it notified China Telecom of the hack by planting a message in the 
company's network. The SQL server was moved but not fixed.

"Fortunately for them, we did not destroy their infrastructure and 
rendered millions of customers without communication," SwaggSec said in 
a note accompanying the data.

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