By: Joe Purcell REF: Thursday:Thursday:07.14.11

By: Joe Purcell

It's been another active week in the hacking world. At least 237,234 records were obtained by hackers from the Stevens Institute of Technology, German Federal Police, Kiplinger Washington Editors Inc., Toshiba Corporation, the National Assembly of Pakistan, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Monstanto Company. The hacking movement has not lost momentum.

Last Thursday, the Stevens Institute of Technology was hacked by @p0keu. At least part of its database leaked on PasteBin containing 31 records with the full names of users, email addresses, and plain text passwords. As a side note, never ever ever store passwords in plain text in a database. There is absolutely no need.

Last Friday, the Geman Federal Police (Bundespolizei) was hacked by the group NN-Crew. Information of GPS location coordinates, license plate numbers, suspects' telephone numbers, and the usernames and passwords of police officers was collected and on their website. The Bundespolizei stated that no investigation data was published and that the data obtained was from a server for customs officials that is used with the PATRAS tracking system, which has now been temporarily shut down.

Last Saturday, Kiplinger Washington Editors revealed that 142,000 records of usernames, emails, passwords, and encrypted credit card numbers were obtained by hackers, as a Bloomberg article notes. Doug Harbrecht, a director at the company, said that the two-week delay was due to an investigation run by a third party organization in coordination with the FBI. The director stated, "'Part of the problem is we still don't know exactly what the hackers got'," but they don't believe it poses any threat.

This past Monday was a particularly exciting day. The Toshiba America Consumer Products (TACP) website (tacp.com or tacp.toshiba.com) was hacked by a hacker named V0iD. According to the DataLossDB there were 11 admin emails and plain text passwords, 784 user emails and plain text passwords, and the names, emails, and plain text passwords of more than two dozen resellers. According to an article by Softpedia, there were 14 user tables, one containing 5,203 records, though he only pasted a total of 800 accounts on PasteBin. V0iD also hacked the National Assembly of Pakistan posting the usernames and passwords of 7 admin accounts...

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