Hackers Threaten Military Families, Penetrate Gas Pump and Expose Porn Site Visitors to Viruses
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Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
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Group That Hacked CENTCOM Eyes Military Spouses
Apparent pro-ISIS hacktivists co-opted the Twitter account of a military family advocacy group and posted threats against around a half dozen members.
Porn Site Was Exposing Potentially Tens of Millions of People to Viruses
Hackers breached RedTube, a pornographic website with about 300 million visits a month, to navigate users over to a webpage with spyware.
An Anonymous Fan Hacked US Gas Pump
At least one networked gas pump in the United States has been manipulated by an intruder who left the motto of the hacktivist group Anonymous.
Cybercriminals Pocketed Up To $1 Billion by Impersonating Bank Officers
Hackers wriggled spyware into bank computers to observe how employees ran the business, so they could make their fraudulent transactions look like normal operations.
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