The Early Learning Coalition of Palm Beach County posted the following announcement on their web site yesterday: The Early Learning Coalition of Palm Beach County has learned of a breach in the security of the electronic database that manages the personal information of individuals applying for or receiving services from the coalition. This breach occurred…
Month: December 2014
The inside story of how British spies hacked Belgium’s largest telco, Belgacom
Ryan Gallagher reports: When the incoming emails stopped arriving, it seemed innocuous at first. But it would eventually become clear that this was no routine technical problem. Inside a row of gray office buildings in Brussels, a major hacking attack was in progress. And the perpetrators were British government spies. It was in the summer…
DOJ Misleads Court About Medical And Financial Records In Appeals Over NSA Surveillance
Jonathan Mayer writes: Earlier this week, the Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments in a challenge to the NSA’s phone metadata program. While watching, I noticed some quite misleading legal claims by the government’s counsel. I then reviewed last month’s oral arguments in the D.C. Circuit, and I spotted a similar assertion. In both cases, the government attorney waved away…
GA: Confidential paperwork found after theft
Rachel Stockman reports: Confidential customer information from a car dealership was potentially compromised after a theft. Delores Carston showed Channel 2 Action News file after file of confidential customer information, including her own, that she says somehow ended up on the street. A man found the paperwork and called her. “This is personal information, this…
More parking facilities affected by DataPark breach
More on the DataPark breach previously noted on this blog as impacting customers of the St. Louis Parking Company in Missouri: ABM Parking Services, Inc. announced that Datapark, a vendor that provides and maintains point of service software for several Chicago parking facilities managed by ABM Parking, confirmed a data security incident. This incident may involve certain customer…
Rex Mundi reportedly leaking employee info
Belsec Blog has more details, but it looks like Tobasco.be and Z-Staffing.org are having their data leaked because they didn’t meet Rex Mundi’s demands. The data leak reportedly does not include national registry numbers, but the hackers are believed to be in possession of bank account numbers that have not (yet?) been leaked. Belsec Blog…