Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
The five online news sites of Embarcadero Media, including PaloAltoOnline.com, were hacked Thursday night at about 10:30 p.m. but are now back online. The sites, which provide online content for the Palo Alto Weekly, The Almanac and Mountain View Voice in the Mid-Peninsula and the Pleasanton Weekly in the East Bay, were attacked by someone who used an image of Guy Fawkes, the icon of the activist group Anonymous. Embarcadero Media took down the websites – PaloAltoOnline.com, mv-voice.com,almanacnews.com, pleasantonweekly.com anddanvillesanramon.com – while working to restore them. There is no indication that the email addresses and passwords of readers who are registered users of the company’s websites were hacked, but the perpetrator did have access to those data files,which could have been taken, according to Embarcadero President and CEO Bill Johnson. He advised readers who are registered users to change their passwords and, if they use the same password on other sites, to change all of them. The company does not store any credit card information on its computer systems, so that data is not at risk, he said. The hacker posted a message that indicated disgruntlement with The Almanac, which covers Menlo Park, Atherton, Portola Valley and Woodside: “Greetings, this […]
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