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Home Depot yesterday confirmed that millions of its customers’ credit cards may have been accessed by hackers. The hack “could potentially impact any customer that has used their payment card at our U.S. and Canadian stores, from April forward,” Home Depot said in a statement, adding that shoppers online or at stores locations in Mexico do not appear to have …

Apple CEO Tim Cook today vowed to make it harder for hackers to access information stored on the company’s iCloud service. Cook said celebrities’ iCloud accounts were compromised when hackers correctly answered security questions to obtain their passwords, or when they were victimized by a phishing scam to obtain user IDs and passwords. He said none of the Apple IDs …

Multiple banks are reporting that hackers have accessed the credit cards of millions of Home Depot customers. The credit card information was offered for sale Tuesday on an underground site that traffics in stolen financial information, journalist Brian Krebs reported on his blog. The breach could have begun in late April or early May of this year, Krebs reported. If …

The journalist’s best friend is has been hacked. A “cross-site scripting” (XSS) vulnerability has been discovered on Twitter’s Tweetdeck client, leaving millions of users open to account hijacking and more. Twitter has shut down Tweetdeck while it fixes the problem, despite earlier promising that it had been fixed. The normal Twitter web interface, and other apps such as Echofon which …

Via the Telegraph: Online auction site eBay is telling all 233M of its users to change their passwords following a “cyber attack” which compromised a database of account information. It is thought that hackers managed to access some eBay employee log-ins which gave access to the company’s corporate network. From there the attackers were able to access the database containing …

The CEO of Target resigned today following a massive breach of customer data over the holiday shopping season. “Today we are announcing that, after extensive discussions, the board and Gregg Steinhafel have decided that now is the right time for new leadership at Target,” a company statement posted on its website Monday morning says. Steinhafel also resigned as chairman of …

AOL was hacked today. AOL Inc on Monday urged its tens of millions of email account holders to change their passwords and security questions after a cyber attack compromised about 2 percent of its accounts. The company said it was working with federal authorities to investigate the attack, in which hackers obtained email addresses, postal addresses, encrypted passwords and answers …

Typepad reports that they are working on the problem again today and that some sites should be back up soon.  For those that have asked, this isn’t an attack on LGBT blogs.

Andy Towle today reports on an email he received from the founder of the gay hook-up app Hunters. An excerpt: The anonymous threat which read, “You will be arrested and jailed for gay propaganda in Sochi according to Russian Federal Law #135 Sektion 6″ was sent on February 1st, 2014 at 11:52 pm to all users in Russia, including those …

The recent spate of credit card hacking has expanded to major hotel chains. White Lodging — a company that maintains Hilton, Marriott, Sheraton and Westin hotel franchises — has apparently suffered a data breach that exposed guests’ credit and debit card information in 2013, independent security researcher Brian Krebs said. Banking industry sources noticed fraud among hundreds of cards that …

Computer security specialist Graham Cluley tips us to a website that has compiled the jillions of email addresses recently exposed when hackers obtained the membership accounts of popular websites. Enter sites like “Have i been pwned?”, created by computer scientist Troy Hunt. Have I Been Pwned makes it easy for you to search for your email address amongst the hundreds …

That’s what Fox Business is claiming: The corporate and media sites of The New York Times (NYT) were experiencing a major cyber attack on Wednesday afternoon, according to a source close to the matter. The source, who asked not to be named due to the sensitive nature of the issue, said the newspaper has been huddling with outside security professionals …

Hackers hit one of Westboro’s sites yesterday. Via Mashable: The Christian fundamentalist group, notorious for its “God Hates Fags” protests, launched a website on Monday called GodHatesOklahoma.com, just hours after a mile-wide tornado hit the town of Moore, Okla., and killed 24 people. The site didn’t last long. Whatever content was originally published — presumably a rant about how America’s …

After a long string of highly-publicized cyber attacks on high-profile Twitter accounts, today’s was doubtlessly the worst so far. The AP’s communications team quickly tweeted from its own account that the main AP Twitter was compromised, but investors had already panicked. The Dow Jones industrial average immediately plunged by more than 140 points.  And there it is: After years of …

Many of the tweets are about Syria.

Anonymous has hacked the Facebook page of Westboro Baptist Church and replaced most of the posts with photos of cats and pro-gay graphics. (Tipped by JMG reader Birdie) UPDATE: Some suspect that the hacking is just a parody page, but WBC’s main website appears to be down also at the moment, so who knows?

If you accessed JMG via Chrome today, you likely got a malware warning. Here’s the story: Internet advertising network NetSeer suffered a hack to its front-end Web site today that rippled across the Web sites of its advertising partners. The alerts warned visitors who were using the Chrome browser that the Web site they were visiting was a “known malware …

Anonymous has issued a threat against Uganda’s leaders should their “Kill The Gays” bill pass. Earlier this week Ugandan clergy demanded the bill’s passage as a “Christmas gift to Christians.” The so-called ‘hacktivists’ from Anonymous New Jersey sent a stark warning to lawmakers, urging them not rubber stamp the draconian legislation which would mean gay Ugandans could face life imprisonment …