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Happy Monday: 1.5 Million Credit Cards Were Stolen By Hackers
Adrian Chen · 04/02/12 09:38AMIt was revealed Friday that hackers had hit the credit card payment processor Global Payments, and stolen potentially millions of Mastercard and Visa customer details in January and February. But on Sunday, Global Payments said in a press release that actually "less than 1,500,000 card numbers may have been exported." Heh, exported—like a fine, fraudulent wine.
Anonymous Is Supposed to Attack the Internet Today
Louis Peitzman · 03/31/12 11:00AMToday's the big day, Anonymous: Operation Global Blackout. Hackers have been advised to attack the Domain Name System, which is responsible for taking a domain name like "gawker.com" and turning it into a series of numbers that makes sense to computers. Anonymous plans to bombard the system with junk traffic, thereby slowing just about everything on the internet down.
White Supremacist Hacks Trayvon Martin's Email Account, Leaks Messages Online
Adrian Chen · 03/29/12 02:44PMThe racist smear campaign against Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teen shot to death last month in Florida, has reached a new level of ghoulishness. A white supremacist hacker says he's broken into Martin's email and social networking accounts, and leaked his private Facebook messages. We've been able to confirm that at least one email account that belonged to Martin was cracked.
Fashion Show with Hacker Masks 'Baffles Audience'
Maureen O'Connor · 03/16/12 01:58PMHacker Makes Anonymous Look Like Assholes By Attacking Abortion Provider In Their Name
Adrian Chen · 03/09/12 02:19PMMost of the attacks carried out by the hacktivist collective Anonymous target governments or corporations in the name of freedom of information. But an anti-abortion hacker claiming links to Anonymous has been arrested after hacking Britain's largest abortion provider, with the intention of leaking patient information. Will Anonymous condemn him?
Anonymous Fameball Barrett Brown Raided By FBI
Adrian Chen · 03/08/12 04:53PM'I'm Not Scared of Jail': My Phone Call With Sabu, the FBI's Anonymous Informant
Adrian Chen · 03/06/12 07:16PMAnonymous Snitch Tried, and Failed, to Pass Himself Off As an FBI Agent Last Month
Adrian Chen · 03/06/12 12:09PMIt was revealed today that the notorious Anonymous hacker Hector Monsegnur—a.k.a. "Sabu"—has been cooperating with the Feds for months, and even worked off a computer they gave him for some time. But that doesn't mean Mosegnur is a fed, as he learned last month when he was arrested by NYPD for trying to pass himself off as an FBI agent.
Revered Anonymous Mastermind Rats Out His Pals to the FBI
Adrian Chen · 03/06/12 10:01AMChristina Hendricks Says These Giant Naked Boobs Aren't Hers, But Everything Else Is
Maureen O'Connor · 03/05/12 11:16AMChristina Hendricks' publicist confirmed last night that the Mad Men star had been the victim of a hack, and that some candid cellphone photos of her had made their way to the internet. However, Christina's publicist says the most noteworthy photo from the Hendricks hacked photo cache—a pair of ample, naked breasts—is not of his client. "The topless image is fake and not an image of Christina."
Wikileaks Becomes Anonymous' Publishing Arm with New Intelligence Firm Leak
Adrian Chen · 02/27/12 12:18PMAnonymous Swears It Was Trying to Extort $50,000 from Antivirus Company for Charity
Adrian Chen · 02/07/12 04:35PMThe Most Prolific Hacker on the Internet: A One-Handed Shadow
Maureen O'Connor · 02/07/12 11:26AMAnonymous Leaks Confidential FBI Conference Call with Scotland Yard
Adrian Chen · 02/03/12 11:32AMThe Mercenary Techie Who Troubleshoots for Drug Dealers and Jealous Lovers
Adrian Chen · 01/25/12 12:13PMGlenn Beck Rips Off Anonymous In New Video
Adrian Chen · 01/25/12 10:24AMLame Hacker Didn't Spy on Goldman Sachs Board Meetings Even Though He Could Have
Adrian Chen · 01/23/12 05:53PMHackers Briefly Make Sen. Chuck Grassley's Twitter Feed Readable
Jim Newell · 01/23/12 04:35PMIowa Sen. Chuck Grassley is an incredulous old coot who likes to tweet unreadable shorthand nonsense, constantly, and then lash out at those who would make fun of him. Whenever the federal government gets around to killing off the dumb Internet once and for all, they should leave Grassley's Twitter page up as a memorial to fun times lost. Here's a useful perspective for considering how unorthodox Grassley's feed is: When hackers broke into it today, their tweets were instantly more professional than the graffiti that one of our most senior Senators usually vomits out from his phone.