A well known Content management system provider in the European based market has been hacked and had a dump of administration details leaked online. This comes from Team Dexter and along with the warning that Contrexx.com needs to do something about the level of security on the website and all its customers should think twice about purchasing any licensing…
Month: October 2011
3,116 NEA Baptist Clinic patients notified after web site hacked
Listed in the most recent batch of updates to HHS’s breach tool was an entry for NEA Baptist Clinic in Jonesboro, Arkansas. A statement on the clinic’s web site, which I found through a Google search and not via a link from their home page, says: NEA Baptist Clinic’s former public website was compromised by…
Pakistan embassy in China website hacked and defaced by Vicky Singh
Recently a crew going by the name of ZHC done a fair few defacings and it has pissed of a bunch of Indians now and they want to get a message out to them to warn them of any further attacks. This is the type of stuff that starts of small but ends up dragging on for years. In…
Top Tory ‘lost voters’ personal info’ days before ID fraud week
Anna Leach reports: Just days before the start of National Identity Fraud Prevention Week on Monday, the Prime Minister’s chief policy advisor Oliver Letwin has been snapped binning what appear to be documents containing personal information in a public park. The discarded documents are said to include the addresses of Letwin’s constituents in West Dorset,…
Barinas State, Venezuela, government hacked and accounts dumped by @SwichSmoke
For the past few months @SwichSmoke has been attacking the Venezuela government with a fair bit of data dumped already and many websites hacked. Today there has been another dump of sites coming from the state "Barinas" and the government for that state. in the release note which is in Spanish states that the original password is 123456, which is fairly lame for…
SEC guidance about coming clean about data breaches
Emma Woollacott reports: The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered companies to disclose security breaches, following a year in which several organizations have been criticized for revealing details late, if at all. “Cyber incidents may result in losses from asserted and unasserted claims, including those related to warranties, breach of contract, product recall and…