**Updated: **first edit i made a mistake and stated that paypal was the victim of the 0 day when it was infact ZPanel. Sorry for any inconvenience or misleading information. Earlier today a well known hacker group, Hack the planet had released a Zine which contains breached information on 2 well known website image service Imageshack and…
Month: November 2012
FL: Bay County Sheriff’s Office Busts Identity Thief in Possession of Thousands of Tax Returns from Unnamed Preparer
Jason Hackett reports: … The trail led back to 26 year old Bryan Loyd and his home in Panama City Beach. Inside they found gym equipment, Michael Koors watches, Ray Ban sunglasses, flat screen TV’s, and other items apparently bought with fradulent credit cards. However, that was just the tip of the iceberg. “[We] located a large…
Strategizing the lawsuit against South Carolina
While I was offline, the lawsuit(s?) apparently commenced against South Carolina over their monster data breach. According to Meg Kinnard of Associated Press, however, plaintiffs might receive only a matter of pennies, as the state limits/caps how much a state agency can pay out for a breach, and that cap is $600,000. It may…
China’s Yihaodian vows more user privacy protection
Sarah Reeve writes: Yihaodian.com, a Chinese online grocery store controlled by US retailing giant Wal-Mart, has vowed to protect users’ privacy after some of its employees have been accused of selling user information, Global Times reported. The website reported the case to the police and upgraded its website system after it found its user information…
Published Data Empowers
Over on The New School of Information Security, Adam Shostack takes off from Jordan Robertson’s article on Experian’s too-frequent data breaches to discuss a topic near and dear to my heart: the value of transparency and detailed information. Do read his post.
UK: Solent NHS Trust patient data left at market stall
Katie Grant reports: Patients’ confidential information has been left at a market stall and on top of a parking meter in a series of data breaches by Solent NHS Trust. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request by the BBC revealed the trust had breached data protection 93 times in the past two years. Michael Parr,…