http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/27/sweden-hacking-twitter-hijack
Over 90,000 private email accounts were released after an anonymous hacker hijacked a twitter account of a MP in Sweden. The hacker tweeted passwords and email details of Sweden political journalists from the account of a twenty-three year old far-right MP named William Perzall, who denies anything to do with the leaks. The hacker has also raided the Swedish blog portal, Bloggtoppen.se. and has accessed more than 90,000 usernames and passwords. These have also now been leaked, making it easy to hack the accounts of well-known politicians, editors and celebrities. The Aftonbladet newspaper also reported that another 57 websites have been compromised, potentially releasing the login details of up to 200,000 people. The hacker is unknown but his online name is: sc3a5j. The hacker did an interview he claimed he did all this to remind people to change their passwords more often. "I dumped this information to let people know that they handle their information wrongly. Many web pages are not up to scratch. And consumers need to know they should never use the same [passwords] for different services on the web. This is how we got into Twitter accounts as well." The interview was obviously done through the internet and not in person due to the fact that he is still unknown.
Over 90,000 private email accounts were released after an anonymous hacker hijacked a twitter account of a MP in Sweden. The hacker tweeted passwords and email details of Sweden political journalists from the account of a twenty-three year old far-right MP named William Perzall, who denies anything to do with the leaks. The hacker has also raided the Swedish blog portal, Bloggtoppen.se. and has accessed more than 90,000 usernames and passwords. These have also now been leaked, making it easy to hack the accounts of well-known politicians, editors and celebrities. The Aftonbladet newspaper also reported that another 57 websites have been compromised, potentially releasing the login details of up to 200,000 people. The hacker is unknown but his online name is: sc3a5j. The hacker did an interview he claimed he did all this to remind people to change their passwords more often. "I dumped this information to let people know that they handle their information wrongly. Many web pages are not up to scratch. And consumers need to know they should never use the same [passwords] for different services on the web. This is how we got into Twitter accounts as well." The interview was obviously done through the internet and not in person due to the fact that he is still unknown.
A story like this gives me great concern on the safety of people’s private information. Nothing is safe on the web, there are always hackers. Whether it is in Sweden or anywhere else it seems that your personal information is never safe. If the online name of this hacker is at least known then why has the police not been able to figure out who is behind all of this? Even though the hacker claims he done this so people would be safer about their accounts, he could do anything he wanted with this information. If he was able to complete such a breach in the internet then he could hack into almost anything in Sweden and cause many problem. This is a great concern.
3 comments:
Yes I agree hackers are a big problem. Once they get a hold of your information, they can really cause damage so it's important to protect yourself so that it doesn't happen to you.
Yes I agree hackers are a big problem. Once they get a hold of your information, they can really cause damage so it's important to protect yourself so that it doesn't happen to you.
Yes I agree hackers are a big problem. Once they get a hold of your information, they can really cause damage so it's important to protect yourself so that it doesn't happen to you.
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