Darren Paul reports: Hackers claim to have made off with 1800 usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords held by the Tasmanian Government. Emails are linked to state agencies including Departments of Premier and Cabinet; Treasury; Infrastructure, Energy and Resources; Health and Human Services; Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment; and Economic Development, Tourism and the…
Month: July 2011
TN: College, government officials among fraud victims in Gallatin area
There’s a rash of card fraud in Gallatin, Tennessee, and authorities have not yet identified the point of compromise. On July 20, Sarah Kingsbury reported: A recent outbreak of credit card fraud has victimized at least two dozen consumers around Gallatin and Hendersonville, including government and college officials. Volunteer State Community College Dean of Humanities…
GIS admits @AnonAustria hack was worse than it originally acknowledged
The Austrian Independent reports: Hackers nicked significantly more data from a subsidiary of Austrian broadcaster ORF than officials initially admitted, it has emerged. A spokesman for GIS, the ORF’s radio and TV fee agency, announced today (Tues) 214,000 customer data sets were stolen in the attack last week. He added that 96,000 of the data…
Did hackers beat FBI to the punch? PornWikiLeaks Shuts Down: XXX Industry Worked With … FBI, AIDS Group Against Website That Leaked Porn Stars' Personal Info?
Dennis Romero reports an update to a privacy breach involving the posting of porn actors’ personal and medical information – a breach that I’ve covered on this blog in the past: ?Here’s a first (maybe): The porn industry is in bed with the FBI. Or so it says. And the two made magic happen from…
UK: Confidential files found in street – will Lancashire Police be taken out to the ICO shed again?
It seems like only last week I was reading about how the Lancashire Constabulary had to sign an undertaking with the Information Commissioner’s Office because they exposed personal information. Oh wait, it was last week. Now, it seems, they may be in trouble again – and again, it involves failing to secure and protect the…
CT: Hospital Staffer Texted Photo Of Murdered Teen
Thomas MacMillan reports: After 17-year-old Travis Washington died in the Hospital of St. Raphael’s Emergency Room, a hospital clinician present took out a cell phone, snapped a picture of his gunshot wound and sent it off for others to look at. In the wake of that incident, the hospital has fired three employees. A distraught…