France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls has announced that he plans to turn to computer hackers, often the scourge of governments worldwide, in order to infiltrate online jihadist networks. Read more on The Local (FR).
Month: May 2015
Woolworths leaks $1 million of gift cards in massive data breach debacle
Oops. Grocery giant Woolworths has scrambled to cancel over $1 million worth of shopping vouchers after a massive leak of customer data, in which it mistakenly emailed the redeemable codes of 8000 gift cards containing the customers’ names and email addresses. Fairfax Media has obtained a copy of the email which contained an excel spreadsheet with the names and email address…
Analysis of Yemen Cyber Army data dump
Earlier today, I noted that the Yemen Cyber Army (YCA) had dumped another 1,000,000 records they obtained by hacking the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This latest dump is visa data. Here’s a bit of a summary of the newest data: The compressed file is 73.4 MB; uncompressed, it’s one text file of 362 MB….
Data stolen during hack attack on German parliament, Berlin says
Reuters reports: A spokeswoman for Germany’s lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, confirmed that hackers had managed to steal data during the cyber attack two weeks ago. She described the detection of several data leaks. Details are unclear as to which specific offices the so-called “scattered data outflows” originated from, or what information they contained….
Data breach lawsuit against UPMC by employees dismissed
It was one year ago that a lawsuit was filed against the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center (UPMC) over a data breach that allegedly resulted in many employees becoming victims of tax refund fraud. Now Adam Brandolph reports that the lawsuit in Common Pleas court was dismissed by an Allegheny County judge. Common Pleas Judge R. Stanton Wettick…
Buffalo Heart Group discovers insider wrongdoing involving patient information
Jill Perkins of WKBW in Buffalo, New York posted a statement from attorneys for the Buffalo Heart Group: The Buffalo Heart Group, LLP, a local medical practice, uncovered a serious breach of its computer system that took place in the Spring, 2014 and affected between 500 and 600 of its patients. The recently completed internal…