After 10 years or so of covering breaches and data loss, it takes a bit to shock me, but this news story by John H. Croessman had my eyebrows involuntarily elevating: When members of the Pinckneyville City Council hammered physician Tim Mathis on television interviews recently about why it has taken so long to clean…
Month: November 2011
Accounts dumped from hiphopinstrumental.net
Well, they are truly starting to look like kids attacking pointless websites and exposing innocent peoples information over and over. The latest comes fro hiphopinstrumental.net and contains over 5000 user account emails and passwords. Use CTRL+F for quick search to be sure you have no been compromised. https://pastebin.com/sdFBMcWT
#OpDarknet Official and Last Release
OpDarknet Official and Last Release — 11/2/2011 In the last three weeks of #OpDarknet, we gained much support from The World with our Operation Darknet. We would like to thank our supporters, in #OpDarknet’s cause. There also was a large amount of resistance from the pedophile community claiming that Tor was their safe haven with…
UK: Council lost memory stick containing 18,000 residents’ details
Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council breached the Data Protection Act by losing an unencrypted memory stick containing the details of over 18,000 residents, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The ICO has required the council to put changes in place and will check to ensure the improvements have been made. The memory stick – which…
Maloney Properties reports laptop theft containing residents’ Social Security Numbers
Maloney Properties has seemingly joined the “stolen laptop” ranks. By letter dated October 28 to those affected, the Massachusetts-based firm reported that a laptop stolen on October 15 contained some limited resident housing data including unencrypted Social Security numbers. The firm explained that it was necessary to store SSN because of federal and state housing…
Study finds many turn to lawsuits following a data breach
Dan Kaplan reports: More than half of American consumers would sue a company that loses its personal information, according to a survey released Wednesday by IT firm Unisys. The twice-a-year Unisys Security Index, which polled 1,000 Americans on information security concerns, found that 53 percent would take legal action in the event of a data…