From their press release: The Economist Group and Bloomberg have discovered that certain former CQ employees now employed by Bloomberg were able to use the log-ins and passwords supplied to them during their employment by CQ to continue to access such information while working for Bloomberg and allowed a small number of other Bloomberg employees…
Month: August 2012
WI: Former AmericInn employee charged with stealing customers’ info
Vickie Mrotek reports: A 19-year-old Medford man accused of stealing credit card information is now charged with 65 felonies. Investigators say the crimes happened while Nicholas Johnson worked at the AmericInn hotel in Medford late last year. Read more on WSAW.com
Tehran Water Company Hacked again, taken offline by yourikan
A hacker using the handle yourikan has been in contact with us as well as many other media company’s over the past few days in relation to a bunch of Iranian based websites that have been attacked. The attacks have been carried out in the name of the continued fight to stop nuclear power and weapons in Iran with that common message being left across all…
Italy: Taranto municipality website hacked and defaced for #OpItaly
An Italian towns website https://www.comune.taranto.it/ has been attacked and left defaced by hackers. The attack was brought to our attention via twitter from twitter user @Rofl4All who announced the following. > comune.taranto.it/ hacked @OpGreenRights @OperationItaly @Cyber_War_News @anon_n0n3 The website was still defaced at time of publishing and contained a message which is in italian but has been transfered…
Audit finds private information on Illinois Commerce site
Associated Press reports: The Illinois state auditor found significant personal information about consumers filing complaints with the Illinois Commerce Commission published on the agency’s website. Auditor General William Holland reported Thursday that the public could search the ICC’s “e-Docket” complaint system and find names and addresses, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers and even credit…
BNSF Railway employees report credit fraud
Jenny Michael reports that approximately 100 employees of BNSF Railway have had their “nonpublic personal information” used to fraudulently open accounts in their names. The railway’s response? “At this time, we do not believe that BNSF’s information security processes or technology systems have been compromised,” the statement said. “BNSF is working with law enforcement agencies to fully investigate…