Showing posts with label Hackers attack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hackers attack. Show all posts

Monday, July 8, 2013

Club Nintendo Japan has been hacked

Japanese Nintendo announced today that its main fan site was attacked by hackers who have gained access to data about approximately 24,000 users.

In the hands of criminals were the names, addresses, phone numbers, and email data users. Project Club Nintendo has been attacked by powerful solutions for over passwords and logins. It is known that all hackers a few days spent 15.5 million automated login attempts, of which just under 24,000 were successful.

In Nintendo reported that they became aware of the burglary last week and the last few days, the company will review the technical data. In addition, the server logs data remains on a very large number of failed login attempts and engineers now they understand. Also, the company said that the first signs of attack began to show more June 9, but in the last days of the attack significantly increased.

Club Nintendo website now operates worldwide, it reaches around 4 million people, but the most popular project is just in Japan.

Monday, February 18, 2013

Facebook reported about sophisticated attack hackers


Social network Facebook has undergone sophisticated attack hackers 


This is said in a statement released by the security Facebook on Friday, February 15.
   
In January, reported security, hackers used to attack the website of the company - the developer of mobile applications, for which a number of employees went Facebook. When you visit this site, hacked on laptops employee social network got an exploit that allowed in the future to establish a kind of malware. Laptops employees Facebook, the statement said security forces were equipped with the latest anti-virus protection.
   
Once the attack was detected, the representatives of Facebook was notified about the incident the police and notified the company of Oracle vulnerabilities in its software. Appropriate soft patch for this issue, Oracle released on February 1.
   
In a statement Facebook emphasizes that there is no evidence that the hackers gained access to personal data of users of social networks.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Google warns of attacks by hackers in Myanmar



According to the business publication The Wall Street Journal, Google has recently sent preduprzhedeniya number of independent journalists in Myanmar that their work email accounts have been hacked into Gmail, and Google said that the accounts were hacked with sophisticated multi-pass tactics that typically use the so-called "state hackers" who are interested in identifying sources of leaks dangerous to the political regime of information.

In Google said that Gmail automated monitoring could quite quickly identify suspicious hacker activity. At the same time, the company in an interview with WSJ refused to provide more details about what actions led to intrusion detection, for whom specifically hunted by hackers and what data they were interested.

The authorities of Myanmar has rejected accusations made by Google. In a statement to the same WSJ spokesman for the Government of Myanmar Thein Sein said that at present neither in the government structure, or the structure of the federal government there is no unit that would be involved in attacks on the "other" computer systems and collecting data using malicious codes.