Josh Taylor reports: Telstra breached the Privacy Act by sending out tens of thousands of letters to the wrong addresses, according to the Australian Privacy Commissioner, which led to the personal information of about 60,300 Telstra customers being sent to the wrong people. In October last year, the Australian Communications and Media Authority and the…
Month: July 2011
MI: Laptop missing from Hurley Medical Center contained patient data
The other day they were claiming that there was no personal data involved, so I didn’t even mention the incident on my blogs. What a difference a day makes. Matt Franklin reports: Personal information of almost 2,000 Hurley Medical Center patients may be in the wrong hands this afternoon because the hospital says it is…
Washington Post reports breach of job seeker data (updated)
Elinor Mills reports: About 1.27 million user IDs and email addresses belonging to people looking for employment on The Washington Post jobs website were affected by a data breach in June, the newspaper has said. “We discovered that an unauthorised third party attacked our Jobs website and was able to obtain access to certain user…
Florida court’s tango down by Operation Orlando, Anonymous
Anonymous has been going flat out with operation Orlando taking and keeping websites offline for hours at a time. The 4th of july was a big day for the operation that seen a lot of government websites crash. Today we have seen Florida courts website go offline. Screen shots:
BPM Data base leaked by p0keu in the name of #AntiSec
BPM is the world’s largest event dedicated to DJing, electronic music production and club culture has had its whole database leaked via twitter. This attack comes from https://visitbpm.co.uk and is in the name of anti security otherwise known as #antisec. This attack has been leaked by @p0keu via twitter,document contains quite a big dump of plain text…
Orlando leaks 800 PDF files via anonymous
Anonymous has just leaked a pastebin link with a 800+ long list of .PDF files. This leak comes from cityoforlando.net, which has seen is fair share of attacks the last week or so along with just about every other website that belongs to Florida state government. More on Operation Orlando here. The PDF files which…