eccouncil website hacked

General Security
EC-Council Statement to Recent Security Breach

On February 22nd, 2014 at approximately 8PM EST, the domain www.eccouncil.org was redirected to an ISP in Finland. Immediately EC Council's Internal Security Response team initiated a comprehensive investigation.

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General Security
EC-Council Site Hacked, But There is a Bigger Issue Now…

Over the weekend, and as of today at 11:00am EST, EC-Council, the organization famous for administering the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) as well as the Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator (CHFI) got hacked by an individual who claims to be a “certified unethical software security professional” going by the alias Eugene Belford. Eugene Belford was actually a character in the movie “Hackers” which came out in 1995 directed by Iain Softley as well as staring Angelina Jolie.

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