Sue Reisinger writes: Earlier this month the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed— and quickly settled—its first lawsuit accusing an employer of gathering illegal genetic information during a job applicant’s medical exam. The agency followed it up last Thursday by filing its first class action suit against another employer on similar grounds. The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act went into effect…
Month: May 2013
UK: Man made redundant fined for stealing sensitive information
Infosecurity-Magazine.com reports on an insider breach where the consequences just don’t seem severe enough. The breach occurred on April 28, 2011, and was prosecuted by the Information Commissioner’s Office under Section 55 of the Data Protection Act: When he learned that he was being made redundant from his position as Community Health Promotions Manager at…
Vendini hacked; customers’ credit card numbers possibly accessed
Krister Rollins reports: The Maine Attorney General’s office is issuing an alert for people who may have used an out-of-state service for buying tickets for shows and other forms of entertainment recently. The service, Venidini (sic), Inc., has been hacked, exposing financial information for tens of thousands of customers. Vendini sent a letter to Maine’s…
POST SQLi Vulnerability Exposed on Twitter Support by @Reckz0r
### UPDATE: See here for information about reckz0rs fake leak history Reckz0r has just contacted me now with a Vulnerability that is on the main twitter support site (https://support.twitter.com/). The Vulnerability is a POST SQL injection which has allowed Reckz0r to expose an SQL error and have also posted further information about this just now on pastebin with…
Lookitsme Breached, 4294 Accounts leaked From 300,000 By @st0rmyw0rm
A British based chat and social website has become victim to hackers after its security failed to keep them out. The site named Lookitsme (https://www.lookitsme.co.uk) which appears to be a adult social and chat site which allows users to have personal gallery’s, get rated by others on "looks" and have chats with others has become a target after its…
Federal University of Bahia Hacked, Accounts Leaked By @1923Turkz
The hacker collective @1923Turkz has been at it again this time targeting the Federal University of Bahia (https://www.ufba.br/). The breach happened in the early hours of today and as a result the site suffered a leak of information which is int he form of account credentials. The site which is the actually the first ever university of Brazil and…