A 45-year-old Calgary police detective has been charged with unauthorized use of a computer and breach of trust. Police spokesman Kevin Brookwell said a financial institution allegedly approached the officer to get contact information for about 10 people who owed the business money. The officer then allegedly accessed the police database between March 2010 and…
Month: May 2012
FL: DCF warns child care workers of possible computer security breach
Oh ffs: another state agency that failed to adequately secure data online. WFTV reports: The Department of Children and Families sent out letters to 100,000 child care workers statewide about a possible breach in security. WFTV learned that the employees’ personal information was stored online, but it wasn’t password protected. […] The vendor that stores…
Hackers demand EUR150K ‘idiot tax’ from Dexia in return for stolen customer data
A group claiming to have hacked a Dexia Bank subsidiary’s database is threatening to post sensitive customer information unless it receives an “idiot tax” of EUR150,000 by Friday. In a pastebin statement addressed to the media, the unnamed group says it has “downloaded extensive confidential customer information” from servers belonging to Elantis, a mortgage and consumer credit…
Global Payments breach went on for at least 8 months – revised estimate
Brian Krebs has an update on the Global Payments breach: A hacker break-in at credit and debit card processor Global Payments Inc. dates back to at least early June 2011, Visa and MasterCard warned in updated alerts sent to card-issuing banks in the past week. The disclosures offer the first additional details about the length of the breach since Global Payments…
eUKhost hacked by UrduHack; billing system accessed
On April 28, eUKhost posted an alert on their web site: In the past 24 hours we have been made aware that there has been a compromise of our billing system. Although the method of the compromise remains unclear, we can confirm that an administrator level login was compromised and an IP address added to…