[ILUG] Hacker THreat?

[John McCormac]

"Paul McCourt (Halcyon)" wrote:
> 
> I've just been told that Virgin, Visa and Microsoft have all been targeted
> by an English group who say they have email msg's from main managers etc..
> they want 650million Belgium Francs!!
> 
> Anybody know anything about this or is it just Belgium shite?
> 

I saw the report on BBC teletext this morning. The problem is that it
does not really give any facts other than mentioning Visa. At the moment
I am not sure of the sources for the story - it looks like one of those
Mi2g shithead stories - unnamed persons did unnamed things at an unnamed
time etc.

I think the inspiration for the story is the CDUniverse crack where a
Russian cracker wanted $100K to fill in the gaps and stay quiet.
Apparently a large number of credit card details were snarfed and a site
was put up with some of these details after CDUniverse allegedly refused
to give into the blackmail threat.

In other news: University of Limerick's website and Telenor's websites
have been cracked overnight. News as usual on http://www.hackwatch.com/

Regards...jmcc
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