The login details of 73,000 users of a popular Finnish family-oriented discussion forum were stolen and posted online in the latest in a series of widespread hacking attacks, police said today. “We are aware of this incident and are investigating it as part of our wider investigation into the hacking attacks,” police investigator Timo Piiroinen…
Month: November 2011
UK: Thousands of health records lost in council security blunder
Since Big Brother Watch came out with a report on breaches disclosed in freedom of information requests, there have been a number of stories about individual councils. This is just one of them. Adam Courtney reports: A security breach saw Hammersmith and Fulham Council lose the confidential health records of 3,500 people which were being…
Pakistani cosmetic surgery and hair transplant center's client database hacked and dumped (updated)
Over on DataBreaches.net, I’ve struggled to keep up with all the hacks that dump PII on the Internet. But there’s one from yesterday that involves patient data that should be mentioned here. A hack of vaguscosmetics.net (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) reveals 1,973 2,555 patients’ information. Here are the data fields from the dumped database:…
Hyderbad Alumni Association of IIIT data dumped by Pakistonix HaXor
The Hyderbad Alumni Association website has been hacked and had a dump of information that is user account information leaked onto pastebin by Pakistonix HaXor. Be sure to use CTRL+ F for quick search https://pastebin.com/bmnnu9Yn
UK: ICO levies two monetary fines to councils for e-mail gaffes that exposed sensitive information
The The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served monetary penalties to North Somerset Council and Worcestershire County Council after staff at both authorities sent highly sensitive personal information to the wrong recipients. The news comes as the Information Commissioner is pressing for stronger powers to audit data protection compliance across local government and the NHS….
Huge amount of facebook account hacked by Cr@zy 3xpl0!t
another recent facebook phishing scam results list has been dumped on pastebin and this one contains a few thousand accounts. warn all your family and friends to always be sure they are logging in to facebook and not 3rd party sites that may expose there information, be sure to use CTRL+F for quick search in case you was stupid enough to fall…