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BART Police database hacked – names and addresses posted online

18

Aug

2011

A database belonging to the BART Police Officers Association appears to have been hacked, and the names, postal and email addresses of officers posted online. Just over 100 officers are listed in the document, in what is clearly a serious security breach. The reason why BART is the focus for so much attention by hackers? […]

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Anonymous Ops Britian and BART

15

Aug

2011

Here’s a new maxim for politicians, policy makers and public administrators: curtail, censor or otherwise limit communications technology in the real-world – expect online reprisals.Hacker collective Anonymous released a “press release” on Saturday announcing OpBritian, a reaction to UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s suggestions that social media should be restricted in a time of crisis.And […]

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Anonymous hacks BART, creating even more innocent victims

15

Aug

2011

Anonymous continued their crusade against governments and organizations this weekend, attacking the myBART.org website belonging to San Francisco’s BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) system. They performed a SQL injection (SQLi) attack against the site and were able to extract more than 2,000 records containing names, usernames, passwords (plain text), emails, phone numbers, addresses and zip […]

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