An FTC action over P2P file-sharing involves a debt collection firm for hospitals where the P2P issue allowed patient data to be exposed: The FTC has charged two businesses [complaint 1 | complaint 2] with illegally exposing the sensitive personal information of thousands of consumers by allowing peer to peer file-sharing software to be installed on their…
Month: June 2012
AU: Patient records in the gutter
John Corlett reports: Queensland Health is investigating how a number of highly sensitive medical documents were left lying in a Rockhampton street on Thursday evening. The Morning Bulletin became aware of the security breach after a Rockhampton resident contacted the paper with concerns the documents had not been recovered. The resident, who did not wish…
UGNAZI Claims to hacked, defaced and be in control of wawa servers
UGNAZI have made claims now that they have hacked a well known gas stores/truck stops WAWA (https://www.wawa.com). Their claims have come from their main twitter account @UG with the following messages. > UGNazi @UG https://Wawa.com —> DeFaceD —> https://i.imgur.com/z1lv8.png —>#Havoc —> #UGNazi****UGNazi @UG How much #havoc would be caused by shutting down all of the Wawa Gas pumps? Love having access to the gas…
5 Sites, including appleshopberlin.de hacked, defaced & data leaked by @dstardstar1
Twitter user @dstardstar1 who appears to have a fairly new twitter account has been posting attacks that they have claimed to do. All together 5 sites have been hacked, 3 of which have defacings and 2 have data leaks that contains user account information as well as other database information. The sites that got leaked are:…
9,000 Accounts leaked from mercotour.com by @nrtnz
@nrtnz has set sights on termasdefederacion.com.ar which appears to a information website but as a result they have access and obtained and leaked data from https://www.mercotour.com. content/images/gallery/indishell/hacked-by-silent-hack3r-and-indishell.png The leaked data has been uploaded to mediafire and is a safe 1.48MB html file that contains 9000+ accounts that have username, email and password. All passwords are being stored…
Cutting Tool Engineering Hacked, 3,931 Accounts Leaked
A tool engineering website Cutting Tool Engineering (https://ctemag.com) that is a online magazine has been hacked and had 3,931 accounts leaked onto pastebin by hacker group Black Tiger Security. The leak was alerted to us via ozdc.net and contains exactly 3,931 accounts, 82 of which were found to be leaked before from other sites. The leaked data contains usernames, encrypted passwords…