Bob Eschliman reports that Clarinda Bank has been notifying some customers that their debit cards may have been compromised. The breach does not involve the bank and the entity that was breached was not named. As is often the case, the bank probably does not know where the breach was. Maybe we’ll find out sometime.
Month: October 2011
Federal gov. website ‘glitch’ compromised college students’ social security numbers
Lauren Chooljian reports: Private financial information belonging to as many as 5,000 college students was open for viewing on a federal government student loan website in recent weeks, according to a senior Department of Education staff member. James Runcie, the Obama administration’s Chief Operation Officer of Federal Student Aid at the Department of Education, said…
Survey says: Data Breaches Can Cause Lasting and Costly Damage to the Reputation of Affected Organizations
Reports of data breaches affecting some of today’s largest companies continue to grab the headlines of prominent news outlets nationwide. The damage experienced by a company after a data breach has lasting negative effects on brand equity and reputation. In fact, a recent survey* of nearly 850 executives, conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored…
UK: Patients’ details found in public bins, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire signs undertaking
University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust breached the Data Protection Act by losing patients’ medical information on two separate occasions, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The ICO’s action and press release was intended to make the point that even “small” breaches in terms of numbers are important and can indicate a pattern…
Dump of accounts from nationmultimedia.com by @_V4ND
@_V4ND has dumped what they say is a teaser of accounts obtained from nationmultimedia.com in what appears to be another havij or similar SQLi vun tool based attack. The leak contains user emails and passwords in clear text. Leak: https://pastebin.com/ta06Zxy9
Dump of accounts from awurval.se
Every day we see more and more attacks on servers that are purely unsecure and for no other reason besides that they tend to end up in the pastebin archives as account dumps. One of the latest comes from awurval.se and contains emails and cleartext passwords. https://pastebin.com/k2GQC3KS