Question

Find a news article concerning a hacked website. Post a link, and summarize the article in your own words. (1-2 paragraphs)

Second question: You are hacking a website or application. Give a brief description of your attack scenario.

Answer 1

As per the recent hacked website list, one of the websites that was been hacked is the Adidas where they stated that there was an interference of an unauthorized party. They managed to gain access to the customer data on the US based Adidas website. It is also believed that the customer who make their purchase from the US based website were mostly affected. The information of the customer includes customer e-mail address, login information like the passwords and username. Though the passwords stored in an encrypted format, so it must be decrypted before using those.

Link: https://www.businessinsider.in/If-you-bought-anything-from-these-10-companies-in-the-last-year-your-data-may-have-been-stolen/Saks-Fifth-Avenue/slideshow/67680059.cms

2) If I am attacker and I need to hack a website, I would rather choose for the SQL injection attack. It is nothing but the code injection technique that will directly go and attack the database. This technique is considered as the common web hacking techniques. SQL injection is something similar to a SQL query which is actually malicious and will provide all the details to the hacker. After that the hacker could manipulate the data present in the Database and if the database is hacked means the website is also hacked.