A hacker using the handle slacker @sl4ck3 has contacted cwn with a recent breach on the European Police College site. (CEPOL) European Police College website(https://www.cepol.europa.eu/) was breached some time around the 26th may by hackers using the Zone-h name omarxarmy who have been using the defacement archive site just over 1 year now. CEPOL brings together senior police officers…
Month: June 2013
Portable Device Containing Social Security Numbers & Personal Info Left in a Champlain College Computer Lab
Joe Gullo reports: Champlain College notified parents and students of a data security incident Monday morning. A press release says a portable storage device containing names, Social Security numbers, and other information provided to the college’s admissions and financial aid offices was left in a computer lab on campus. The drive was returned to Champlain…
Patients details left abandoned in Stockport as ICO highlights need for better decommissioning practices
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has imposed a monetary penalty of £100,000 after the discovery of a large number of patient records at a site formerly owned by Stockport Primary Care Trust. The information was uncovered when the site was bought in 2011 and the new owner reported that boxes of waste containing personal information had been…
McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Hacked & Accounts Leaked
A hacker group using the handle Group Hp-Hack has announced another leak of data today, this time from McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine (https://www.mirm.pitt.edu/). The McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine is based at University of Pittsburgh and is apart of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. > The Institute’s mission includes the development of innovative clinical protocols as well as…
Auto Dress Hacked, 1800+ Credentials leaked by Group Hp-Hack
An after market automotive accessories website has become victim to a data leak this weekend. The hackers who go by the group handle of Group Hp-Hack posted the leak to anonpaste.me and announced it over twitter but have since had the twitter account suspended. The announcement did state there was over 19,000 accounts but its come…
Rothamsted Research Hacked, Full Databases and Credentials Leaked
Today a hacker using the handle nairb has dumped a leak of data that comes from a United Kingdom based research center. The company Rothamsted Research was breached some time this week which has resulted in its complete database being leaked. > Rothamsted Research, previously known as theRothamsted Experimental Station and then theInstitute of Arable Crops Research,…