Andrew Shain reports: The University of South Carolina said today that confidential information about 34,000 people could have been exposed in a hacker attack on the College of Education’s web server. The school said it discovered the breach on June 6. No evidence was found that the hackers accessed every record on this server, but…
Month: August 2012
Israeli businesses hit by wave of hacker extortion
Tamir Cohen reports: Several financial institutions and businesses have recently fallen victim to extortion by organized crime rings and independent hackers, which has cost these victims anywhere from a few thousand shekels to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Various ruses are used, but a common tactic is infiltrating a company’s computer network or an employee’s…
UK: Tesco to be investigated over privacy concerns
Here’s an investigation that started after a tweet complaining about inadequate security. Mof Gimmers reports: Those exciting folks at The Information Commissioner’s Office are going to investigate Tesco over the way they protect the privacy of their customers online. The ICO probe comes on the back of claims from security experts who have a number…
Eastern Health privacy breach triggers lawsuit
CBC News reports that one lawyer has filed potential class action lawsuits against both Western Health Authority and Eastern Health Authority in the wake of privacy breaches involving improper employee access or snooping in patients’ records: St. John’s lawyer Bob Buckingham is leading class action lawsuits against two health authorities. (CBC) Eastern Health disclosed in…
CA: Clerk arrested for allegedly leaking confidential, sealed federal files
Rina Palta reports: An FBI undercover officer allegedly bought sealed documents from the court clerk’s husband. Nune Gevorkyan was caught in a sting for allegedly leaking files. According to the FBI, an undercover agent approached Gevorkyan’s husband, Oganes Koshkaryan, about purchasing information from confidential, sealed federal files. Koshkaryan later returned with information on pending arrest…
10 Faroe Islands Sites Hacked, Data leaked for #OpHarpoon by #DoktorBass
Yesterday was a busy day for Anonymous Australia hacktivist #DoktorBass who has kicked off a new operation which has been dubbed #OpHarpoon and an operation against whaling. The announcement for the operation was made over the weekend and by last night 10 sites had been hacked three of which have been left with deface pages as well…