Back in 2011, I posted several reports of massive hacks or insider data theft involving Chinese sites. One of the reports involved Alipay, which is Alibaba’s online payment system. At the time, Alipay would only confirm that IDs had been involved, but said it was only IDs. Today, I saw this on ECNS.cn: Alipay, the online…
Month: January 2014
Another University of Florida breach that flew under my radar
Stumbled across this University of Florida breach today while searching for something else: Payroll Breach Information Published: March 11th, 2013 On February 17, 2013, the University’s Privacy Office was notified that a list of social security numbers (SSN) was mistakenly released. Specifically, a payroll processing report that included SSNs was shared by means of a public…
Two University of Florida breaches in 2013 that I seem to have missed
Just stumbled across these while searching for something else and I don’t recall ever seeing them before – from UF’s web site: UF Beaches Women’s Health Specialists Lab Tests Inadvertently Sent to Baptist Medical Center Published: July 15th, 2013 The University of Florida (UF) is notifying 142 patients of the University of Florida Beaches Women’s Health…
The Directors Guild of Canada Hacked, 2000+ Credentials leaked
A hacker using the handle "legionnare" aka ObeySec has yesterday leaked data from the directors guild of Canada. The leak was posted to paste bin and the target website was which is the directors guild of Canada who is a national labour organisation that represents over 3,800 key creative and logistical personnel in the screen-based industry covering all…
Malware attack hits thousands of Yahoo users
Faith Karimi and Joe Sutton of CNN report: A malware attack hit Yahoo’s advertising server over the last few days, affecting thousands of users in various countries, an Internet security firm said. In a blog post, Fox-IT said Yahoo’s servers were releasing an “exploit kit” that exploited vulnerabilities in Java and installed malware. “Clients visiting yahoo.com received advertisements…
How our private medical data gets collected and sold
Frances Stotter effectively makes some points about your medical privacy – or lack thereof: Last year, I saw doctors more than usual. One major problem has been my back. So, I got the spinal injections in June. Soon, the ads flooded in, through every medium, TV, Internet, and US mail. They were, and still are,…