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Anonymous Claims To Have Hacked 28,000 PayPal Passwords For Guy Fawkes Day
Huffington Post
Nov. 5, 2012
By Cavan Sieczkowski
Anonymous, which adopted the Guy Fawkes mask, designed by “V for Vendetta” illustrator David Llyod, as a symbol for its social crusade, has decided to celebrate Guy Fawkes Day with some good, old-fashioned hacking.
Guy Fawkes Day is observed annually on Nov. 5 in commemoration of the rebel Englishman’s demise.
Marking Nov. 5 as a day of global protest, hacker group Anonymous began its tribute on Sunday night by allegedly hacking a PayPal server and stealing 28,000 customer passwords, The Next Web reports. Anonymous announced the hack on Twitter, “linking to a set of Private Paste documents containing emails, names, and what appear to be possibly passwords from the payment service’s database,” according to TNW.
The head of public relations for PayPal, however, denied the Anonymous attack, tweeting, “We’re investigating this but to date we have been unable to find any evidence that validates this claim.”
Gary McKinnon extradition to US blocked by Theresa May
BBC News
Oct. 16, 2012
British computer hacker Gary McKinnon will not be extradited to the US, Home Secretary Theresa May has announced.
Mr McKinnon, 46, who admits accessing US government computers but claims he was looking for evidence of UFOs, has been fighting extradition since 2002.
The home secretary told MPs there was no doubt Mr McKinnon was “seriously ill” and the extradition warrant against him should be withdrawn.
Mrs May said the sole issue she had to consider was his human rights.
Hackers Get Personal Info On 12-Million Apple Users… From An FBI Laptop
Techdirt
Sept. 4, 2012
By Mike Masnick
Much of the debate over cybersecurity legislation like CISPA and the Cybersecurity Act focused on getting more private companies to “share data” with federal government agencies, including the FBI and the NSA. As we’ve pointed out time and time again, beyond the basic privacy rules that the bills tended to bulldoze through, any time you increase the sharing of private data, you’re only making it that much easier for hackers to access that info because you’re putting it in more places — some of which will almost definitely be insecure. In other words, even though these bills were ostensibly about “protecting” from hack attacks, by increasing the sharing of data, they’d almost certainly open up new attack opportunities and make it easier for hackers to get info.
While neither bill passed (yet), the latest example of what happens when you have widespread data sharing comes from some Antisec hackers, who claim that — in response to a presentation from the NSA’s General Keith Alexander — they wanted to probe the security of various government agencies, including the FBI. End result? They claim to have hacked into the laptop of FBI agent Christopher Stangl, who has appeared in recruitment videos for the FBI looking to hire “cyber security experts.”
The hackers claim that on his laptop, they found a csv file with:
