Jeremy Kirk reports: An Australian teenager who notified a public transport agency of a serious database flaw is under police investigation. Joshua Rogers, 16, of Melbourne, found a SQL injection flaw in a database owned by Public Transport Victoria (PTV), which runs the state’s transport system. The flaw allowed access to a database containing 600,000…
Month: January 2014
Reuters sources: Other US retailers victims of cyberattacks
Jim Finkle and Mark Hosenball of Reuters report: Target Corp and Neiman Marcus are not the only U.S. retailers whose networks were breached over the holiday shopping season late last year, according to sources familiar with attacks on other merchants that have yet to be publicly disclosed. Smaller breaches on at least three other well-known…
Confirmed Xbox Support Twitter Account Breached by Syrian Electronic Army (Updated)
UPDATED AT BOTTOM Today it appears the Syrian Electronic Army has come out for the weekend again with sights set on Microsoft. Just a short time ago they have announced a possible breach on Microsoft’s @xbox twitter account @xbox here and here. The proof they have given was posted publicly via twitter and is two android…
MIT breached on Aaron Swartz Passing Anniversary
Today anonymous hacktivist have breached MIT servers and left a small note on one of its sites. This breach is in light of exactly 12 months since Aaron Swartz passed away and has been carried out in part of #OpLastresort which has been on going for some time now. The breach was carried out on…
Update on IRS seizure of server with 60 million records of 10 million patients
Erin McCann has a follow-up to a concerning report I noted here in March that involves the IRS’s seizure of 60 million records containing PHI of 10 million people from an unnamed company. McCann reports that the company has since been identified as Three Rivers Provider Network. As previously reported, the incident related to an IRS…
Update: Former Virginia Beach General Hospital nurse's aide sentenced for using patients’ personal info to commit tax fraud
Doris Taylor reports: A former nurse aide for Sentara’s Virginia Beach General Hospital was sentenced to 81 months in prison for using patients’ personal information to submit fraudulent federal tax returns with the IRS. They say 36-year-old Emmanuel Effiong and another aide, Festus Ighalo are originally from Nigeria and are now U.S. citizens. Officials say the two aides…