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United States Department of Defense data leaked by Anonymous hackers
dod-coin-on-american-flag. A group called the "Wikiboat" belongs to Anonymous hackers have attacked the Defense.gov website and leaked data from the website. They have published the leaked data to the pastebin note. Also, today the Wikiboat targeted the GEMA.de website and took it offline.

The leaked data includes some officials name, Emails ID's and Phone numbers as shown below:
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The most valuable thing in our computer or network is the data we create. After all, that data is the reason for having the computer and network in the first place. Anybody for whom data is important, security is more important than that and if you’ll not follow the security guidelines then it would be very difficult to secure your information from the external attacks. Operating systems and applications can always be reinstalled, but user-created data is unique and if lost, may be irreplaceable.

Skype+Vulnerability+Exposing+User+IP+AddressesSkype is warning users following the launch of a site devoted to harvesting user IP addresses.The Skype IP-Finder site allowed third-parties to see a user's last known IP address by simply typing in a user name. A script has been uploaded to Github that offers these options. According to the page, it can be used to lookup IP addresses of online Skype accounts, and return both the remote and the local IP of that account on a website.

A day after messing with servers maintained by Reliance Communications, Anonymous, an international hacker collective, defaced two websites belonging to BJP on Sunday. Through its Twitter account (@opindia_back) it announced that www.mumbaibjp.org and www.bjpmp.org.in were hacked by the group. After the hacking, the group posted a message to web users, asking them to organize protests against "web censorship" in India on June 9.
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KhantastiC haXor and 1337 of Pakistan hacked around 37 Government sites of India today. The reason of the hack is the war raging between the two countries for a good amount of time now.

KhantastiC did not deface the index of the sites. Rather he uploaded a page which appeared to be like www.site.com/khan.html instead of defacing the index. But 1337 defaced the index of the sites.

List of Hacked Sites:

http://minorityaffairs.rajasthan.gov/
http://krishi.rajasthan.gov.in/
http://jawaharkalakendra.rajasthan.gov.in/
http://cite.rajasthan.gov.in/
http://techedu.rajasthan.gov.in/