Bodybuilding.com confirms Data Breach

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Bodybuilding.com, the internet's biggest online store and online forum for fitness and bodybuilding enthusiasts, has disclosed last week a security breach that impacted its IT systems.<br />
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Customer data might have been exposed, the company said in a <a href="https://www.bodybuilding.com/help?notifications&data-incident">short message</a> posted on its website. Its staff isn't sure if the attacker accessed customer data, though.<br />
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A third-party security firm was hired to help with the investigation, but forensics experts couldn't confirm that customer data was stolen from Bodybuilding.com's servers, either.<br />
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Bodybuilding.com said investigators traced the unauthorized activity to a phishing email its staff received in July 2018. At least one employee appears to have fallen for this email.<br />
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Hackers used the data they obtained from this phishing email to access the company's network in February 2019. Bodybuilding.com didn't say when it detected the intrusion, but it said it finished its investigation on April 12. It went public with the security breach a week later, on April 19.<br />
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We became aware of a data security incident involving unauthorized access to our systems in February 2019. We engaged one of the leading data security firms to conduct a thorough investigation, which traced the unauthorized activity to a phishing email received in July 2018. On April 12, 2019, we concluded our investigation and could not rule out that personal information may have been accessed.</blockquote>
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Despite not knowing if hackers accessed customer data, Bodybuilding.com decided to do the right thing and notify all of its customers of the security incident, as a precaution.<br />
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It also reset all users' passwords as well, to prevent any abuse in case attackers did manage to steal any data.<br />
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According to the company, if hackers did manage to access and steal customer data, possibly exposed details will include name, email address, billing/shipping addresses, phone number, order history, any communications with Bodybuilding.com, birthdate, and any information included in BodySpace profiles.<br />
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Social Security numbers and payment card details were not exposed, the company said, as the site never collected this information in the first place.<br />
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Besides notifying users of the breach, Bodybuilding.com is also alerting users that scammers might also try to imitate its data breach disclosure notifications for online fraud or phishing attacks.<br />
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Please note that the email from Bodybuilding.com does not ask you to click on any links or contain attachments and does not request your personal data. If the email you received about this issue prompts you to click on a link, suggests you download an attachment, or asks you for information, the email was not sent by Bodybuilding.com and may be an attempt to steal your personal data. Avoid clicking on links or downloading attachments from such suspicious emails. Any link included in our email to users directs users to insert the Bodybuilding.com FAQs URL into your browser and does not request your personal data.</blockquote>
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2 Million Wi-Fi Passwords Leaked

4/23/2019 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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A popular hotspot finder app for Android exposed the Wi-Fi network passwords for more than two million networks.<br /><br />The app, downloaded by thousands of users, allowed anyone to search for Wi-Fi networks in their nearby area. The app allows the user to upload Wi-Fi network passwords from their devices to its database for others to use.<br /><br />That database of more than two million network passwords, however, was left exposed and unprotected, allowing anyone to access and download the contents in bulk.<br /><br />Sanyam Jain, a security researcher and a member of the GDI Foundation, found the database and reported the findings to TechCrunch.<br /><br />We spent more than two weeks trying to contact the developer, believed to be based in China, to no avail. Eventually we contacted the host, DigitalOcean, which took down the database within a day of reaching out.<br /><br />“We notified the user and have taken the [server] hosting the exposed database offline,” a spokesperson told.<br /><br />Each record contained the Wi-Fi network name, its precise geolocation, its basic service set identifier (BSSID) and network password stored in plaintext.<br /><br />Although the app developer claims the app only provides passwords for public hotspots, a review of the data showed countless home Wi-Fi networks. The exposed data didn’t include contact information for any of the Wi-Fi network owners, but the geolocation of each Wi-Fi network correlated on a map often included networks in wholly residential areas or where no discernible businesses exist.<br /><br />The app doesn’t require users to obtain the permission from the network owner, exposing Wi-Fi networks to unauthorized access. With access to a network, an attacker may be able to modify router settings to point unsuspecting users to malicious websites by changing the DNS server, a vital system used to convert web addresses into the IP addresses used to locate web servers on the internet. When on a network, an attacker also can read the unencrypted traffic that goes across the wireless network, allowing them to steal passwords and secrets.<br /><br />Tens of thousands of the exposed Wi-Fi passwords are for networks based in the U.S.<br />
Source: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/22/hotspot-password-leak/">TechChrunch</a></div>

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Personal Data of FBI Agents leaked

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Three websites belonging to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) National Academy Association (FBINAA) were hacked apparently by three hackers after they managed to breach their security, steal and upload data online.<br />
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Part of the uploaded content was dozens of documents containing personal information of federal agents and law enforcement officers. The information includes email IDs (both private and government), names, job titles, contact numbers, and postal addresses.<br />
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Reportedly, thousands of officials have their private information leaked online since there are around 4,000 unique records of personal credentials of federal officials. The data was stolen from three of the many chapter websites affiliated with the FBINAA across the US.<br />
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These websites are used for promotional purposes primarily for the FBI training academy in Quantico, VA. The hackers identified and exploited several flaws in the three websites and stole the entire contents of the yet unnamed websites. Afterward, the hackers transferred the data on their personal website.<br />
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While speaking with one of the hackers, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/12/police-data-hack/">TechCrunch</a> learned that the trio has managed to hack over 1,000 websites so far and the <a href="https://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Cyber%20Crime">cybercriminals</a> are now trying to organize and structure the acquired information.<br />
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    “Soon they will be sold. I think something else will publish from the list of hacked government sites,” the unidentified hacker told.</blockquote>
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When asked if the hackers were aware of the fact that uploading such sensitive data online would endanger the security of federal agents and law enforcement officials, the hacker plainly replied “Probably, Yes,” adding that they have more than a million employees’ data belonging to various federal agencies and public service organizations in the US.<br />
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    “We hacked more than 1,000 sites,” said the hacker. “Now we are structuring all the data, and soon they will be sold. I think something else will publish from the list of hacked government sites.” We asked if the hacker was worried that the files they put up for download would put federal agents and law enforcement at risk. “Probably, yes,” the hacker said.</blockquote>
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The hackers do not intend to sell the stolen data on hacker forums or the Dark Web marketplace but will be offering it for free just to prove the legitimacy of the claim that they have the data and for the sake of experience. TechCrunch reported that there are over ten hackers involved and they mainly use public exploits to target websites that haven’t been updated or contain outdated plugins.<br />
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While having an encrypted chat session , the hacker gave proof of some of the other websites that they have breached, which included Foxconn’s subdomain too.</div>

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Voting Machine firewall details and passwords leaked online

4/06/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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A sysadmin at a number one mechanical device vendor denote a firewall configuration file, as well as passwords, into a public Cisco support forum in 2011, gap the corporate up to attainable attack.<br />
The config files expose a wealth of knowledge helpful to Associate in Nursing wrongdoer, as well as the name, hostname, and ASA version range. whereas <b>there's no proof that the mechanical device vendor was compromised, this accidental discharge of knowledge is "juicy intelligence,"</b> Dan Tentler, founder and corporate executive of satellite cluster, Associate in Nursing attack simulation security company, tells.<br />
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"If you have got a crack team of housebreaker varieties and they are all attending to burgled a building, this firewall configuration file is that the equivalent of finding the ground set up of the building they're reaching to burgled," Tentler says.<br />
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Compromising the c<b>omputer code offer chain of a mechanical device vendor would be a years-long endeavor, requiring careful designing and long-run persistence within the company's network.</b> It remains unclear if this "floor plan" was ever employed by Associate in Nursing wrongdoer because the mechanical device vendor has not answered that question with rhetorical certainty.<br />
One of the ASA devices seems to be a firewall on the company's development and testing network. Associate in Nursing wrongdoer World Health Organization used this intelligence to compromise the mechanical device vendor's network may have used works backdoors ("remote access software") to hack vote machines. they might have deep-seated refined microcode backdoors or engaged in spear phishing attacks against native election officers.<br />
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A nation-state wrongdoer may even have derived the mechanical device ASCII text file and used it to seem for security flaws. "The mechanical device vendors...are actually on the microwave radar of powerful attackers, as well as nation-state adversaries," Alex Halderman, a prof of computing at the University of Michigan, Associate in Nursing a knowledgeable of mechanical device security, tells. "The networks they're mistreatment for developing, testing, and debugging election system computer code area unit probably to be probed by attackers World Health Organization would wish to weaken the protection of our elections."<br />
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"If you'll get into one in every of these vendors," he adds, <b>"take the ASCII text file to the vote machines, that is of huge advantage to somebody UN agency needs to attack them."</b><br />
In the forum postings, that area unit still public at the time of this writing, the mechanical device merchandiser worker asked for facilitate configuring a Cisco ASA 5505 — a firewall appliance — and includes sensitive details regarding the company's internal network layout, likewise as passwords (likely the default passwords), writing, "Here is my running config."<br />
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In one forum post, the worker asks for help:<br />
I am making an attempt to line up a DMZ with an interior VLAN to transfer SFTP (SSH) firmly. I am unable to get the within the computer to attach to the SFTP (SSH) server. I actually have bought and activated the safety upgrade My DMZ server. My computer making an attempt to travel from the within to the DMZ.<br />
The employee continues to provoke facilitate, writing in another forum post, "I would really like to trammel the safety on my Firewall. am I able to take away my ‘any any’ statements in my access lists? Here's my config."<br />
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It's doable, of course, that the sysadmin modified the passwords before posting to the <b>Cisco support forum, though the language used ("Here is my running config") suggests otherwise.</b> it is also doable the passwords were modified afterward.<br />
Even if the passwords were ne'er valid, this firewall config offers associate aggressor valuable intelligence. "This info is incredibly helpful for associate aggressor that’s targeting this organization with a political goal in mind," Tentler says. "If Russia found this and was deciding to focus on this organization, this can be gold."<br />
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We found what we have a tendency to believe to be the employee’s LinkedIn profile, that shows the worker now not works for the corporate. Neither the mechanical device merchandiser nor the previous worker competent our press inquiries.<br />
"I hope that vendor has enforced immensely higher security coaching since 2011 so as to avoid additional security leaks of this nature," Halderman says, "but nothing that I actually have seen would lead Maine to<b> believe their security has improved to the extent necessary to stave off nation-state adversaries</b>."<br />
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Under Armour Fitness App MyFitnessPal data breached affecting 150 million users

4/03/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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Under Armour, Inc. last week <a href="https://content.myfitnesspal.com/security-information/notice.html">announced </a>that it is notifying users of MyFitnessPal - the company's food and nutrition application and website - about a massive data breach affecting 150 million users. But according to the comapny sources, Payment card data was not compromised because it is collected and processed separately. </div>
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A massive data breach on March 29 that impacted 150 million user accounts of the fitness vendor’s popular MyFitnessPal application Under Armour reported, which provides exercise, diet and calorie counting capabilities.<br />
"On March 25, the MyFitnessPal team became aware that an unauthorized party acquired data associated with MyFitnessPal user accounts in late February 2018.” Armour stated, Under Armour has not publicly identified the root cause of the breach.<br />
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The data taken includes <b>usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords.</b> Rather than being stored in plain text, hashed passwords are scrambled cryptographically to protect passwords from being easily reused.<br />
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On March 30, the company began to inform about the leakage of data to 150 million users . Users received the following e-mail:<br />
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To the MyFitnessPal Community: <br />We have included your MyFitnessPal account information. We understand your protection and information seriously. <br />On March 25, 2018, we became aware of the MyFitnessPal user accounts. The related information included usernames, e-mail addresses, and hashed passwords - the majority of the hashing function called bcrypt used to secure passwords.<br />Once we became aware, we quickly took steps to determine the nature and scope of the issue. We are working with leading data security. We are also notified and are coordinating with law enforcement authorities. <br />We are <br />notifying MyFitnessPal users to provide information on how they can protect their data. <br />We will be requiring MyFitnessPal users to change their passwords and urge users to do so immediately. <br />We continue to monitor for suspected activity. <br />We continue to make enhancements to our systems to detect and prevent unauthorized access to user information.<br />We take our steps to safeguard your information. We recommend you: <br />Change your password for your account. MyFitnessPal account. <br />Review your accounts for suspicious activity. <br />Be cautious of any unsolicited communications. <br />Avoid clicking on links or downloading attachments from suspicious emails. <br />For more information, please go to <a href="https://content.myfitnesspal.com/security-information/FAQ.html">https://content.myfitnesspal.com/security-information/FAQ.html</a>. <br />Sincerely, <br />Paul Fipps <br />Chief Digital Officer</blockquote>
<br />If you have used this application and wherever you have had the same or similar password, change it as soon as possible.<br /><br />And if you logged in via <a href="https://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/facebook">Facebook </a>to the application , firstly - this is not the smartest approach (never do it!), And secondly, go to the Facebook options and receive the app all rights and link again. If you really need to log in via fejs, it would be better if you created an account in your application by e-mail.<br />
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Ecuador disabled Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's Internet Access

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The founder of WikiLeaks has been offline for a few hours after Ecuador suspended his internet access. WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange can’t connect to the internet anymore.<br />
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On Wednesday, Ecuador’s government posted a statement on Twitter saying it cut Assange’s internet access for sending out messages meddling with other countries’ affairs. The message, posted in Spanish, said Assange had broken a “written commitment” not to do that.<br />
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“Assage’s behavior, with his messages through social networks, puts in danger the good relationships that Ecuador maintains with the United Kingdom, with the other countries in the European Union and other nations,” read the statement.<br />
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Assange has been living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012, when the government granted him political asylum.<br />
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It’s unclear what message or messages in particular got Assange in trouble. Ecuador’s government and Ecuador’s embassy in Washington DC did not immediately respond to a request for comment via email.<br />
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Assange spent much of Tuesday on Twitter posting several tweets related to the arrest of Catalan independentist politician Carles Puigdemont. Puigdemont was arrested in Germany on Sunday. The politician fled Spain after declaring the Catalan independence last year. The Spanish government has indicted him for crimes of rebellion and sedition, among others, and issued a European arrest warrant.<br />
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He also posted a somewhat cryptic, an seemingly apropos of nothing, tweet in Spanish that said: “I won’t have the right to speak about political prisoners who were interfered with under any circumstance.”<br />
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Assange often comments on international affairs on his personal Twitter account, as well as the WikiLeaks official one. In 2016 and in 2017 he often commented on American politics and the US elections.<br />
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WikiLeaks supporters, such as MEGA’s founder Kim Dotcom, took it to Twitter to protest, using the hashtag #ReconnectAssange.<br />
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Intel CPUs Vulnerable To New Spectre-Like Attack, BranchScope

3/28/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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Security researchers have discovered a new wave of attacks called <b>BranchScope</b>. Yet we're not done with the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws that put billions of devices at risk of attacks.<br />
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<b>BranchScope :  </b>It's a <b>new side-channel attack </b>discovered by four security researchers<b> </b>from College of William and Mary, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, University of California Riverside, and Binghamton University, which could affect devices powered by Intel processors and which may be immune to the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/meltdown">Meltdown </a>and Spectre mitigations.<br />
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According to their <a href="http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~nael/pubs/asplos18.pdf">paper</a>, even if they are a bit more sophisticated, the BranchScope attacks can do the same damage as the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/spectre">Spectre </a>and Meltdown flaws, in the way that an<b> attacker can exploit the security vulnerability to retrieve sensitive data from the unpatched system, including passwords and encryption keys,</b> by manipulating the shared directional branch predictor.<br />
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"<b>The success of the attack largely depends on the ability to perform branch manipulations with precise timing,</b>" reads the paper. "The attacker controlled OS can easily manipulate victim execution timings. For example, the attacker can configure the Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC) in such a way that enclave code is interrupted after several instructions are executed."<br />
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Sandy Bridge, Haswell, and Skylake processors affected The researchers have demonstrated the BranchScope attack on three recent Intel Core i5 and Core i7 x86_64 (64-bit) processor families,  including Sandy Bridge, Haswell, and Skylake. The worst part of these attacks is that BranchScope can be extended, offering attackers additional tools to perform more advanced and flexible attacks that target even applications running inside Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions) enclaves.<br />
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In their paper, which is a must read if you want to learn everything there is to know about the BranchScope vulnerability, the security<b> researchers have proposed software- and hardware-based mitigations for the BranchScope attacks</b>. Therefore, we expect Intel to release new microcode updates for its processors that also fully patch the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/branchscope">BranchScope </a>vulnerability, so make sure you always keep your systems up-to-date.<br />
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“We have been working with these researchers and have determined the method they describe is similar to previously known side channel exploits. We anticipate that existing software mitigations for previously known side channel exploits, such as the use of side channel resistant cryptography, will be similarly effective against the method described in this paper. We believe close partnership with the research community is one of the best ways to protect customers and their data, and we are appreciative of the work from these researchers.”<br />
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