Deepika K.C. writes: On Friday morning, those who tried logging into Karnataka State Higher Education Council (KSHEC) website were greeted by an unusual message. A caricature holding a glass with red liquid — as if offering a toast — was mocking at the visitors with these words: “Your data belong to me”. The hackers had…
Month: August 2015
Three Indian Army officers shared sensitive info on Facebook in exchange for sexually explicit chat
The Indian Express reports: The Military Intelligence (MI) investigations over leakage of sensitive military information over Facebook by some serving Army officers has zeroed in on three officers of the rank of Colonel, Major and Lieutenant. These officers have been found to be giving out locations of Army units in exchange for sexually explicit conversation…
Ola Cabs Accidentally Reveals Hundreds of Customers’ Data – and Doesn’t Care? (update1)
Kunal Anand reports that a woman received hundreds of text messages with customer info and couldn’t get Ola Cabs to stop or to care: It turned out, Ola was sending me confirmation messages when other customers made a booking, in BANGALORE!…Hidden within the hashes I found mobile numbers, names and addresses….Ola was sharing with me,…
Data pirate stole $360K in real-estate records: lawsuit
Kathianne Boniello reports: Data pirates beware: A Manhattan real-estate company has you in its sights. Reis Services LLC, which runs a database of commercial properties in more than 7,000 neighborhoods across the country, wants a court to unmask the information thief who has been accessing its proprietary reports for free, according to a Manhattan federal…
Ravenhall prison guards’ personal data accessed during remand centre riots
Australian Associated Press reported this last month, but I missed it: Prisoners accessed the personal information of prison guards during riots in Melbourne’s Metropolitan Remand Centre, Corrections Victoria has confirmed. The prisoners gained access to the personal documents of a small number of officers, who have been informed of the breach. Read more on The Guardian. via…
Expert predicts 400 church leaders will resign because their names surfaced in Ashley Madison data dump
Relevant writes: The Ashley Madison hack will have a serious effect on churches. According to Ed Stetzer, as many as 400 pastors, deacons, elders and church staff members may resign this Sunday after their names surfaced on the list of users revealed in the Ashley Madison hack. In a post on his Christianity Today blog, The Exchange, Stetzer…