Elaine Edwards and Ciara O’Brien report that two thefts in December or early January have put Eircom customers at risk of identity theft: The details of up to 6,845 current and former customers with Eircom’s mobile divisions may have been compromised after three unencrypted laptops were stolen. Up to 550 customers with eMobile and Meteor…
Month: February 2012
UK: Five councils, a youth charity, and a healthcare provider sign undertakings following data breaches
Five councils breached the Data Protection Act by failing to keep people’s personal information secure, Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, said today: Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council breached the Data Protection Act on four separate occasions during a two month period last year. The breaches included an incident in May when an individual was mistakenly sent…
United Nations, UN.org Hacked and data dumped Again
Once again the united nations have become the target of hackers and have ended up on the bad end and had more data and vulnerable links leaked. United Nations Hacked by Casi What is this ? The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development,…
Alabama and Texas law enforcement sites fall to hackers (updated)
Hackers who have previously targeted police department or law enforcement-related web sites have struck three more sites in the past few days – one in Texas and two in Alabama: The Alabama Department of Public Safety (dps.alabama.gov) was hacked by @cabincr3w and w0rmer. Seven spreadsheets with information on sex offenders and limited information on the victims…
Trading corporation of bangladesh hacked and defaced by Saadi and Hax.r00t
content/images/gallery/random3/hacked-by-hax-r00t-and-saadi.png Saadi and Hax.r00t have been defacing many sites recently and sadly we have missed many of them. Earlier we published four other sites that have been hit by them and now comes a big government site for Bangladesh. Trading corporation of Bangladesh tcb.gov.bd/ was hacked and defaced with the same defacing we had seen earlier. We have…
Nigeria National Assembly Hacked by Anonymous #OpNigeria
content/images/gallery/opnigeria/twitter-occupyallst-nigerian-national-assembly.png The twitter account @OccupyAllSt has announced the hack on twitter which has been dumped on pastebin. The hack has resulted in some minor data being leaked from the server. The attack which has been labelled part of OpNigeria shows that this operation is far from finished. The server which was attacked is https://www.nassnig.org/ which is the site for…