Vodafone Iceland hacked; data of over 70k users stolen
Vodafone Iceland hacked; data of over 70k users stolen Parth Makadiya On March 2, 2014 Vodafone Iceland was hacked on November 29 within initial breach only pegged to website defacement; however, after initial investigation the company confirmed that attackers have had accessed customer information as well as SMSes sent using the website. The hack was first tweeted by @AgentCoOfficial, a Turkish hacktivist group, which was followed by an announcement by Vodafone that its website was defaced by attackers because of which it was taken offline. During the initial announcement, Vodafone didn’t believe that confidential data may have been accessed and revealed that it will bring back the site as soon as possible. The original tweet by the attacker was followed by another tweet on the same day with details about a file containing the data siphoned off from Vodafone’s site and few minutes after that followed a tweet wit...