Earlier today, I posted a breach involving the University of Sydney. As an update, DataBreaches.net can now report that the breach was the work of Abdilo, who has made a point of going after universities (as other posts on this site have demonstrated). Abdilo had dropped hints about an Orsee 0day previously. Today, however, he made it clear that this…
Month: February 2015
OR: Convicted ID thief found with ‘how to’ guide, DMV database
Brent Weisberg reports: Joe V. Johansen was arrested Jan. 30 by officers with the Portland Police Bureau’s Street Crimes Unit that operates out of East Precinct. […] In the affidavit that requested an increase for bail, Jackson wrote Portland police officers Michael Strawn and Patrick Mawdsley received a downloaded copy of a computer that Johansen…
EU: WP29 'distances itself' from reform on further mHealth data processing
DataGuidance reports: The Article 29 Working Party (WP29) issued, on 5 February 2015, a letter to the EU Commission (‘the Commission’) addressing a request to clarify the scope of health data in the context of wellbeing and lifestyle apps. In particular, the WP29 stated that under the current Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) further processing of…
Anthem says hackers had access to customer data back to 2004
Chad Terhune reports: Insurance giant Anthem Inc. said Thursday that hackers had access to customer data going back to 2004 as investigations continue into the massive breach. I would not take that to mean that the Anthem is not retaining data that goes back before 2004, but only that the database the hackers accessed went…
Anthem says hackers had access to customer data back to 2004
Chad Terhune reports: Insurance giant Anthem Inc. said Thursday that hackers had access to customer data going back to 2004 as investigations continue into the massive breach. I would not take that to mean that the Anthem is not retaining data that goes back before 2004, but only that the database the hackers accessed went…
AU: 5,000 University of Sydney students notified that hack exposed their details (Updated)
Tim Asimakis reports: Thousands of students were today contacted by Duncan Ivison, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and informed that, due to an an information security breach, their personal information could now be in the hands of hackers. According to the email, the University’s Information Security Team identified that the ORSEE…