[PN] Microsoft India Store Hacked

[challapradyumna]

Twitter Re-designed

With Facebook releasing regular updates to the users profile and Timeline being the latest update twitter also has updated their entire site with a refreshing look. Major change is that the stream is located at the right side of the screen and profile and trends on left side. Now profiles open as a pop-up unlike the older version.

Take a look: www.twitter.com

Greece gov websites down – anonymous

This is becoming a long list. Recently once again Anonymous took down the Greece's prime minister, the police and parliament as violence erupted again in Athens against austerity measures approved by parliament .

Tweet by @YourAnonNews “TANGO DOWN: Hellenic Republic Ministry of Citizen Protection -ydt.gr #Anonymous #Syntagma #Greece #12fgr,â€

Source: http://www.ibtimes.c...greece-cuts.htm

Deadmau5 – anonymousE

https://p.twimg.com/...z1sCIAAWpIU.jpg

Iran Chokes Internet

ISP’s in Iran are blocking majority of the social networking sites also the email providers. If some on tries to access those sites a message saying "Access to this page is a violation of computer crime laws" will appear or the connection is heavily throttled that. The government is trying to establish a national internet that would exclude most non-iranian and non-muslim sites.

Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hZ2YTbJpwgqNaSb6eSxt2c3cnr4w?docId=CNG.44924fb62c5f6aa60b1644bcd6e44b6e.401

2[sup]nd[/sup] Australian Anti-Piracy Meeting

Australia's Government held an initial meeting held in September last year to try and get the content and ISP industries to thrash out an agreement on how to handle Internet piracy. Consumer representative groups were not allowed to attend the meeting, and attendees are now allowed to reveal what was discussed. Now a second meeting has been held, and again, no information has been revealed about what's being discussed.

Source: http://delimiter.com...piracy-meeting/

Microsoft India store hacked

Chinese group called Evil Shadow team hacked the site and posted screenshots of usernames and password they acquired form the site. They said that they found the data unencrypted on the site. The Microsoft Store India (www.microsoftstore.co.in) website showed an error message promising to restore access as quickly as possible.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn...y/#.TzkV3HPzu8A

Steam Report on last year’s Intrusion

They said that the hackers would have taken backup file with information about Steam transactions between 2004 and 2008. This backup file contained user names, email addresses, encrypted billing addresses and encrypted credit card information. It did not include Steam passwords.

Source: http://store.steampo....com/news/7323/

Facebook Unfriend leads to double murder -

http://www.reuters.c...E8182JY20120209

Click here to view the article

 

[6pack]

i got an email from the store asking me to change password as soon as access was restored. it seems only the usernames and passwords was stolen. the cc info was not compromised according to the email i got.

edit: reread the mail and it says the email ids, address etc were stolen. I think all of the user data stored in plain text was compromised.

 

[rakesh_ic]

scary..

i dint get any mail from MS though.. lets c if i get anything in the future.

 

[vivek.krishnan]

Fcuk! Did not get any mail either.

 

[6pack]

Microsoft Store update: Important

In a previous email on Feb. 12, 2012, we notified you there may have been unauthorized access to some of your customer account information on the Microsoft Store India site (http://www.microsoftstore.co.in) operated by a third party. We suggested you reset your password, among other security precautions, and to contact us with further questions.

Further detailed investigation and review of data provided by the website operator revealed that financial information may have been exposed for some Microsoft Store India customers. So, as an additional precaution, if you used a credit card on the Microsoft Store India website, we recommend the following actions:

• Contact your credit card provider and alert them to potential unauthorized access to your account information.
  
• Closely monitor and review your credit card account for abnormal activity, and if seen, immediately contact your credit card provider.
  

Microsoft is committed to protecting customer privacy and takes this situation very seriously. We understand that you may have additional questions, so we have set up a team of specialists to address any of your concerns. Please call them between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. at 1-800-102-1100.

If any of you guys used cc, please check your cc bills properly.

 

[bottle]

Yeah got the email, luckily the card I used long back is phased out but this still sucks