DE wowgold.de 2012 Hacking (Q10805)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | DE wowgold.de 2012 Hacking |
A data breach risk event |
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January 2012
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Anonymous released a video to reveal their intentions of targeting online game websites that fail to properly protect their customers. To show theyre serious, they already breached a website and leaked tons of information from its databases. Many users of the Internet actively playing online games, but none of the seller cares about privacy, Anonymous states. Their first victim is a German website, owned by RandyRun, called Wow-Gold.de. Even though the website claims to be protected by McAfee, baring the McAfee Secure trustmark to prove it, Anonymous hackers say they didnt have any trouble breaching their security and leaking private information such as names, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers and even passwords. (English)
