The North Penn School District and the Towamencin police department are investigating a student accused of hacking into the district’s computer network. School officials discovered the situation early this week and turned the investigation over to police, and computer devices are being analyzed to ascertain what information may have been accessed, according to a district…
Month: December 2011
Enterprise Cyber Security & Information Assurance Podcast
To celebrate the launch of the Enterprise Cyber Security & Information Assurance Summit taking place in San Jose, CA, USA, FC Business Intelligence are releasing some exclusive podcasts recorded with their host organization The Global Institute of Cyber Security & Research (GICSR) and the Industry Information Analysis and Sharing Centre. The first of these hard…
Square Enix servers hacked, 1.8 million users affected
This is shaping up to the year of high-profile hacker attacks in the gaming world, as game developer Square Enix announced this week that 1.8 million user accounts were compromised as a result of a recent online security breach. The developers responsible for the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest game franchises reported yesterday that a hacker “may have gained unauthorized access…
2.8k Accounts dumped from portalmercosur.com
an online business-to-business marketplace has been hit by a hacker who has dumped a load of their users accounts on pastebin. the attack is on portalmercosur.com and done by AnonymousSynn. The leak contains 2800+ accounts all of which have clear text passwords, emails and usernames. https://pastebin.com/pbRm7FH3
How do you define “finite and very small:” Peoples Gas/North Shore Gas disclose breach
Steve Daniels reports: Peoples Gas and sister utility North Shore Gas have notified an undisclosed number of customers of the possible theft and potential use of personal information about them by a contract worker. The natural gas utilities, which serve nearly 1 million customers in the city of Chicago and many northern suburbs, said in…
HI: Tax data infiltrated by state workers (updated)
Rob Shikina reports: The state Department of Taxation placed several employees on administrative leave without pay this week following the discovery of an internal security breach of the department’s tax database. The breach was found during an audit of the department’s security systems and internal controls this year, the department said Thursday. The incidents occurred…