The security researcher Brian Krebs is under continious attack by hackers and cybercriminals. This time hackers have claimed to have dumped the Krebsonsecurity.com database on Pastebin.
We have taken a quick look at the dumped files and it seems to have zero value.
krebsonsecurity #HACKED
http://t.co/Ho2eyVZk15
@TheHackersNews @TheHackersBlog @An0nylulz @securityaffairs @SecMash @NakedSecurity
— Narcochaos (@N4rCochaos) October 11, 2014
The passwords are encrypted and the only viewable information are the e-mail addresses which are used by users to login at the Krebsonsecurity.com website.
The breach does show that the hackers are after Brian Krebs and that they “claim” to have found a way to penetrate the Krebsonsecurity.com website.
You can VIEW the PASTEBIN file here
Krebson responds
Brian Krebs has responded on Twitter and has explained that the leaked “pastebin” file is actually the database dump of RageBooter.
@YourCyberNews just the tiniest bit of googling on your part would have shown this to be dbase of ragebooter http://t.co/HqCdRFgOJB
— briankrebs (@briankrebs) October 11, 2014