Words fail. Just read this post by Sijmen Ruwhof.
Month: December 2015
Hacks, hacks, everywhere, Monday edition
“Rubber” (@smitt3nz on Twitter) has been busy, it seems. Here are just some of the hacks and data dumps posted in that Twitter account over the past few months. 784 users of chickencycles.co.uk had their usernames and passwords hacked and leaked. Some of the passwords were cracked and the cracks provided. 1,710 users of artrookie.co.uk had their usernames, encrypted…
U. Colorado Health Notifies 827 Patients That Employee Snooped in Their Records
From their public notice: UCHealth in northern Colorado is notifying approximately 800 patients that an employee inappropriately accessed their electronic medical record information. Letters to these patients have already been mailed, and affected patients will receive the letters over the coming days. The privacy and confidentiality of patients’ medical record information is a priority, and…
FL: Jury acquits former Osceola County deputy in ID theft, tax fraud case
Following up on a report from September 2014, because while some of those indicted were convicted, one was acquitted and it’s only fair to report that in light of prior damage to his reputation. Rene Stutzman reports: A federal jury has acquitted a former NFL wide receiver who later worked as an Osceola County deputy, on charges he was…
Fan networks, including MLB, leaked fans’ personal details: researcher
Los Angeles-based Vixlet‘s web site says, “Social networks of tomorrow Today. Bring it On.” So Chris Vickery, the white-hat researcher who uncovered the Systema Software breach, did. And what he found was that fans of Major League Baseball, ATP, and Slipknot had their personal details leaked. “I downloaded over 377,000 user account details, Chris tells DataBreaches.net, including, “names, email addresses,…
Tunecore Has Been Hacked, Sensitive Data Revealed, All User Passwords Invalidated
Bruce Houghton reports: Tunecore CEO Scott Ackerman sent an email to all users around midnight on Friday night that their accounts had been hacked three weeks earlier on November 17th. “We recently discovered suspicious activity on TuneCore’s servers in November,” he wrote, “and that on November 17th an individual illegally collected information from our servers.” The data stored…