http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57501931-83/hackers-vow-hellfire-in-latest-major-data-leak/ By Elinor Mills Security & Privacy CNET News August 28, 2012 A group of hackers has released a vast quantity of data from banks, government agencies, consulting firms and many others and promised more data leaks in the future. "Team GhostShell's final form of protest this summer against the banks, politicians and for all the fallen hackers this year," the group, which calls itself -- you guessed it -- "Team GhostShell," wrote in a Pastebin post titled "Project HellFire" this weekend. "With the help of it's [sic] sub-divisions, MidasBank & the newest branch, OphiusLab. One million accounts/records leaked. We are also letting everyone know that more releases, collaborations with Anonymous and other, plus two more projects are still scheduled for this fall and winter. It's only the beginning." It's unclear how much data was published from how many organizations, but security firm Imperva analyzed the data and said some of the breached databases contain more than 30,000 records. "It's hard to say with precision just how much (data was stolen), but you can say this is a pretty significant breach," Rob Rachwald, director of security strategy at Imperva, told CNET in an interview today. [...]Received on Tue Aug 28 2012 - 22:48:49 PDT
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