They were serving sensitive customer data from their portal website which includes a client login to access that data.
Here is an interesting theory on how the breach happened.
Mossack Fonseca Breach Theory
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Tag Archives: security
“Dark Wallet” app for Bitcoin
Here is a new hacker made peace of software that would make Bitcoin transactions far less traceable (or more untraceable).
Anonymous Ukraine
Anonymous Ukraine claim to reveal “the true face of the Ukrainian government and politicians” by leaking their private emails as a way to point the country in European direction.
Ukrainian State Customs was also cracked few days ago and Ukrainian Foreign Ministry before that.
Tor is not as safe as it used to be
Well at least Tor Browser bundle (Firefox with enabled Tor) for Windows. It seems to be infected with JavaScript malware supposedly originated with with FBI.
One solution would be to disable JavaScript but there is not much to do on the web without JS these days.
More info at boingboing.
All Credit Card PIN Codes
All credit card PIN codes in the world leaked! Really, they have them all including yours!
Few words about legal hacking
If you’re web developer here is a service that will help your ego grow (for better or for worse) and will definitely support your security skills.
Challenges illustrate common vulnerabilities and security holes, they are not really hard to break but some of them are better protected then say UN website, so it’s like real-world hacking, but it’s legal 🙂 Have fun!
Why would anyone want to hack U.N.? And how did they do it?
So why would anyone hack U.N.? There seem to be an answer to the question “how”, as for “why” it’s still pretty unclear (save for some strong language):
# Why did you hack it ? Continue reading
Anonymous hacking spree
Anonymous were busy lately, they cracked CIA website, US Alabama state servers and some Mexican websites. Small review of their recent activity on pcworld.com.
Someone (not Anonymous for a change) has also compromised U.N. server, here’s the bad part:
U.N. was not using basic web security and … a simple SQL injection attack (SQLIA) was what enabled the hacker to gain access to the U.N.’s database.
Totally not cool! Why would anyone want to hack U.N. is a mystery, perhaps they just saw the security hole and just couldn’t help it…
FBI Chat Unencrypted?
Cybercrime related conference call between FBI agents and British law enforcement officials was hacked. Read the article on CRN…
Anonymous claimed responsibility for recording the meeting and posting it on the Web, here’s the tweet:
Erm, did anyone tell the FBI that we’re NOT Pokemon? You really CANNOT catch us all…