Citi Bank & Bank of America under Massive DDoS Attack

Izz ad-Din al-Qassam the Cyber Fighters ddossed American Banks sites, Citibank & The Bank of America and made all its domains out of reach, according to a blog posts of al-Qassam.

Blog Post on CiteBank:

Just moments ago Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters attacked CitiBank and made all the parts out of reach. This was the 2nd attack this day.
Banks could not stop al-Qassam Cyber fighters this week

Blog Post on Bank of America:

In the 3rd week from Operation Ababil, just a moment ago Bank of America faced technical difficulties due to heavy traffic made by al - Qassam Cyber Fighters and users can no more reach the site.

The Citi Bank’s representatives acknowledged the cyber attack while saying 

“Currently we are aware & are working on technical issues with Citi websites. We will let you know when service is fully restored. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please call the number on the back of your card if you need immediate assistance,” on Twitter.

But the representatives of Bank of America have not issued any statements on the matter.

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Ministry of Defense of Argentina hacked by LulzSecPeru

Ministry of Defense of Argentina hacked & defaced by Pro Hackers Group LulzSecPeru

LulzSecPeru tweeted about their hack:

Ministerio de Defensa Argentina #defaced http://mindef.gov.ar 

The page is not recovered & still defaced at the time of writing.

Deface Page:

Mirror:
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/18834768

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National University of Bangladesh Hacked by JokerCracker, Thousands of Credentials Leaked

A hacker who goes by the handle @JokerCracker has just announced an attack on the National University of bangladesh website and server (www.nu.edu.bd) which has left the site being inaccessible.

The attack was announced on twitter and posted to private paste in the format of a sql dump that contains thousands of credentials of users and staff of the University.

Joker Tweet:

http://www.nu.edu.bd  (National University of Bangladesh) +15,000 Users, Pass, Mails ... #Hacked by @JokerCracker -> http://goo.gl/3M6lM  

The leaked credentials range from full names, address, contacts and emails as well as login details which are encrypted.

Total amount of accounts found to have emails is 4316 but 1423 of them were duplicated leaving only accounts with 2893.

E-mail Statistics

Valid E-mails	2,881
Duplicate E-mails	0
Already Stored	12
Hotmails	1,934
LiveMail	16
Gmails	45
Yahoos	761
Total E-mails.	2,893

Generated by ozdc.net

Source: PrivatePase

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