2011, the year of the hacker and hacktivist has pushed many governments from around the world to make changes to the national cyber security, make treaties with other countries and do an overall clean-up. Today Australian Prime minister julia Gillard released a "changes to the ministry" press release on the PM’s website, reading thru this i came…
Month: December 2011
Florida Family Association hacked and warned by Anonymous
A hacker going under the Anonymous/antisec flag has spent a bit of time on the Florida Family Association servers, grabbed some data and left a nice warning with the leak of data. The dump of information and warning was first posted via ihazcAnNONz twitter account and dumped on pastebin. content/images/gallery/random2/twitter-ihazcannonz-antisec-anonymous-ohai.png the warning: Florida Family Association feels the need to…
20,000 CPPS Testville accounts leaked
CPPS, club penguin public servers, an online gaming community has once again been hit by hackers who have hacked and leaked a huge amount of user accounts. The hack is on the game Testville, and contains username, emails and encrypted passwords. All together there is over 20,000 accounts. this isn’t the first time we have seen cpps hit,…
VT: Doctor pleads guilty to accessing patient records
The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced last week that Joshua Welch, 35, of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, pleaded guilty to the crime of unlawfully obtaining the private medical information of another person. Welch pleaded before United States District Judge William K. Sessions III in Burlington. According to statements made…
Anonymous and AntiSec target group for Anti-Muslim campaign (update1)
America. What a country. The Florida Family Association (FFA) proudly declares itself: … an organization that is made up of THOUSANDS OF SUPPORTERS across America who share in the same goal of improving America’s moral environment. Florida Family Association’s mission statement in our IRS approved 501C3 application is to: Educate people on what they can…
UK: Probe after children’s files stolen from car
I’m not sure whether this incident belongs on this blog or PHIprivacy.net as there’s no indication as to what types of data were involved, but This is Lancashire reports: Bolton Council is under investigation after files containing children’s details were stolen. It is understood the documents were taken when a member of staff who works with…