I’ve occasionally blogged about how frustrating it can be to try to notify an organization that they’ve apparently been hacked or had a breach. When that organization is a hospital and I can’t reach anyone, it’s even more frustrating. This week, it happened again. I ranted in Twitter a bit, and Jake Kouns suggested I…
Month: February 2013
Is Kively.com revealing user info?
On February 7, a site reader alerted me to a possible problem over on Kively.com: Look at the description directory – it reveals all the PII when there is some in the descriptor. After looking at the description directory, I found myself wondering about whether some of the entries were, in fact, disclosing some PII. Instead…
Why the delay?
Approximately three weeks ago, I added a breach incident to DataLossDB that involved the North Los Angeles County Regional Center. My summary of the incident was: Stolen laptop contained consumers’ names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, UCI number, ability to ambulate, whether they used a respirator, type of residence, and contact person The entry…
Matlock Town Council Hacked by Anonymous
An anonymous hacktivist using the handle fiofa fado has hacked a UK government council website and as a result the site has been left defaced. The website is for the town council of Matlock (https://www.matlock.gov.uk) and contains information regarding local events, help and services and news. The attack was posted to Fiofa Fado’s Facebook timeline about 12 hours ago and at…
National Association of Federal Agents Defaced For #FFF
#FFF Is well known in the information security and hacker scene with it being closely associated to Anonymous and antisec operation from late 2011. Over the past months/year there have been many attacks and one of the latest that has been dubbed part of #FFF ( fuck FBI friday) is on the National Association of…
90 Portuguese Sites hacked by AnonGhost
An anonymous based hacker collective calling themselves AnonGhost have been on a spree of defacement’s since the start of the year with the latest being 90 Portuguese websites. The sites are all based in or content related to Portuguese and the defacement contains the common layout that we often see from AnonGhost. The defacement has…