Hackers using the handle 1923Turkz have breached the Lomonosov, Moscow State University (https://www.msu.ru) leaving user accounts leaked online. The University is one of Moscow main university which has been around for 258 years now and has under gone many name changes over this time. The hackers 1923Turkz who have over 200,000 defacement archives on the popular defacement archive website Zone-h announced the…
Month: May 2013
Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong & China Hacked, Personal Data Leaked
The Chinese and Hong Kong Sports Federation & Olympic Committee website has been breached leaving a load of personal details leaked on the Internet. The attack comes from a hacker using the handle @G3NTbl4ck who has recently been attacking many other sites and leaking data from the databases. The Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hon Kong and China is the…
For an extra paltry £140, private insurer can buy identifiable data on NHS patients
Randeep Ramesh reports: Private health firms, including Bupa, can pay £140 to identify potentially millions of patients and then access their health records, detailing intimate medical histories, under a new national arrangement in the NHS, the Guardian can reveal. The records, which include sensitive information about hospital visits, such as a mother’s history of still births,…
Yahoo Japan suspects 22 million IDs stolen
Last month, Yahoo! Japan disclosed that it had discovered that malware inserted in its system had extracted user data for 1.27 million users, but that the breach was stopped before it leaked any of the information outside of the company. Now, in what appears to be an unrelated incident, the company reports that it suspects…
Who – if anyone – is responsible for notifying victims of some breaches?
I’ve blogged a number of times about how although law enforcement may uncover breaches or data theft, the victims often do not get notified in a timely fashion – if at all. Here are just a few scenarios where no one may notify people whose data have been stolen: Law enforcement discovers a handwritten list…
Savanna police report numerous debit and credit card fraud reports
Now what? Is this another big merchant breach or one we already knew about? Thomas Geyer reports: Police in Savanna, Ill., have received numerous reports of debit and credit card fraud from residents and called in the U.S. Secret Service for assistance. Savanna Police Chief Michael Moon said all of the banks and credit unions…