Another law enforcement site, this one in Turkey, hit. ANF reports: The website of the police headquarter in Ankara has been hacked by Redhack in the organization of ‘AntiSec’ formation. Panicked after the attack,the police shut down all their servers, writes the Redhack site, but they could not prevent Redhack from getting the files. Explaining…
Month: February 2012
Another week, another round of Congressional questions and posturing?
How many data breach investigations can one Congress initiate without actually doing anything? What is the point of asking Grindr questions about its security? Hasn’t Congress heard enough by now to know that most companies and apps do not implement adequate security despite what they say on their sites? What, if anything, does Congress intend…
236,351 Accounts From Polish Forum Gram24
The same hacker who today leaked 12,000+ accounts from vista.pl has also hit a polish forum and when we say hit we mean hit… the attack was on Gram24.pl which is a forum for movies, games, photos etc and a total amount of breached accounts from the forums database’s is 236, 351. All accounts contain usernames, emails…
12,000 Accounts Leaked from Polish website Vista.pl
Its come to our attention that a huge leak has recently happened and more is set to come. The targets seem to be all Polish websites and the hackers are said to be from Poland as well. So far they have hit Vista.pl and dumped well over 12000 user accounts from the software information and download portal….
Bank Of Israel Hacked by Mauritania Hacker team
Mauritania Hacker team has claimed to of hacked the bank of israel in a video that has been posted on our facebook wall. In the video they show what appears to be hundreds of account holders and all their information. follow them on facebook
Reidentification Theory Doesn't Save Privacy Lawsuit–Steinberg v. CVS Caremark
Here’s an update on a lawsuit I noted back in March 2011. Eric Goldman writes: CVS Caremark provided consumer data to pharma companies and data brokers. The plaintiffs alleged that the data transfers violated CVS’s privacy policies, but CVS apparently disclosed only “de-identified” data as contemplated by HIPAA. Plaintiffs couldn’t sue under HIPAA, both because…