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Hacker raided by FBI after leaking Microsoft next Xbox release information

FBI agents this week raided the home of a Australian hacker who recently leaked a slew of details about Microsoft's next release of Xbox console. “They just took all my computers my hard drives, all of my technology, they took my bank cards, credit cards, bank statements,” he said.

He had claimed to know about the next Xbox and PlayStation, claimed to really have two prototype versions of the next Xbox.

The suspect, identified as Dan Henry a.k.a SuperDaE and he tweeted about the raid on his twitter and  uploaded a warrant copy. Last year he reportedly sold a next-gen Xbox development kit on eBay for $20,100. A development kit is what Microsoft sends to companies so they can develop Xbox games.

The warrant revealed that there are many companies behind the charges filed, including Microsoft, eBay, and Paypal. The photo was removed after it was thought to be a hoax but developers later confirmed that the pictures were in fact accurate of the highly anticipated Xbox gaming console.

Henry has admitted in recent interviews that he breached networks at some gaming companies. He also said the FBI was trying to extradite him. He also leaked over 20 documents to Kotaku, which he said was not done for financial gain.

He said he was contacted by Microsoft last year for details of flaws in their security system. "This raid was a result from the Aussie police kissing America's ass." he tweeted.

Anonymous Hackers dumps 600k Emails from most popular Israeli web portal

As part of  Operation Israel (#OpIsrael) Anonymous Hackers once again strike on Israeli infrastructure by dumping the 600,000 emails and passwords from one of the most popular Israeli web portal 'Walla', which is know for providing news, search and e-mail system, among other things.

Anonymous Activist knows 'AnonSabre' dumped email addresses, password MD5 hashes and salts across 95 Pastebin posts containing this sensitive information have been published over the course of 24 hours.

Walla also confirmed that the list was posted online, but they said that the information leaked by Hacker is Useless because the password posted by hacker is in Encrypted form. 

I think, they are not aware about fastest MD5 cracker 'oclhashcat' or other cloud based cracking services, anyway they also said,“However, we are working on 'hermetically' sealing off user details in Walla! accounts,”.

The #OpIsrael campaign was announced last December, and according to Anonymous, is for the “children and families in Gaza that are suffering as a result of the policies of the Israeli government.”

As part of the campaign, hackers took down the Israeli military spokesperson’s website, and hacked into the Israeli Vice Prime Minister’s site in past months.

Hackers deface Hostgator Indian domain

Hacking group 'today hack and deface Hostgator Indian domain Hostgator.in , which handles the Indian Operations ofHostgator.com with locally available servers and localized currency billing as well as support.

Rather than editing homepage or other pages of site, hacker just added new file at on ftp with defacement purpose. At the time of writing, the page has been removed by firm but we had taken a screenshot this morning as shown below:

The defacement page ends with message,"We Are Anonymous". No doubt that group have nothing to do with Hacktivist group Anonymous, but may be they use this term just for fun.

Google Play privacy issue, sends app buyers personal details to developers

Google is again under attack for its apparent mishandling of its users’ personal information. An Australian software developer 'Dan Nolan' revealed that the search giant was sending him the full names, email and post codes of everyone who purchased his app on Google's Play.merchant account to update his payment details
The main problem is that Google is not asking explicit permission from buyers to share that information with developers, but according to privacy groups and with careful inspection of the policies, Google does not clearly mention that it is sharing personal information to app developers nor does it create a good deal of effort in informing buying customers.

The sign-up process for Google Wallet tells prospective users that they will need to share some basic information with merchants to conduct their transactions. But from a practical point of view, many people seemed blindsided by the news that their information was being shared. There was a mention that developers could take any type of personal information and still sell it to another party.

Last year, Google was accused of violating the consent order by placing tracking cookies on the computers of Safari users, despite telling those same users they would be automatically opted-out of such tracking. Google agreed to pay a record $22.5 million to the FTC.

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