Catalin Cimpanu reports: Members of the World Hacker Team, one of Anonymous’ subdivisions, have breached South Africa’s Department of Water Affairs (DWA) as part of the group’s #OpAfrica and #OpMonsanto campaigns. #OpAfrica is an Anonymous social campaign launched to highlight the situation of child labor and government corruption in African countries. […] The leaked data…
Month: February 2016
Confidential records of Palm Beach County law enforcement officials and judges posted online
Jess Swanson reports: About 4,000 confidential records — the purported home addresses of police officers, lawyers, and judges — have been published on the website PBSOTalk.com, and the former owner of the website is blaming it on Russian computer hackers. Mark Dougan is a former Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office deputy. After leaving the force in 2008,…
IN: Security breach reported by Kankakee Valley REMC
The Chicago Tribune reports that Kankakee Valley REMC is investigating the possibility that a breach may have compromised almost 18,000 members’ personal information. According to a press release issued by the electric utility cooperative, the breach was detected by an audit in mid-January that indicated that a foreign IP address had accessed a storage device on the network. According…
Anonymous Leaks Details for 64,000 Tanzania Telecommunications Company Employees (UPDATE2)
Update1: TTCL is denying that they’ve had any breach. Update 2: Softpedia stands by its report that there was a breach, but has revised its estimate of the numbers. As one consequence, the headline for this post has been revised to delete the mention of 64,000. Original post: Catalin Cimpanu reports: Barely a day has passed since…
Hack by Anonymous created hassles for hospital patients during Flint water crisis
I don’t care WHO you are or what your cause it. Stop hacking hospitals in ways that interfere with or delay – in any way – patient care. Just stop it. Gary Ridley reports that Anonymous is being blamed for one such interruption: A cyber attack by the online “hacktivist” group Anonymous that was intended as…
Commenters on Henry Schein consent order: FTC was too lenient
Public comments on the consent order in FTC v. Henry Schein Practice Solutions are now available. The FTC will be responding to commenters, but I wanted to note one particular point raised by commenter because I hadn’t considered it when I filed my complaint with the FTC, and I think the commenters are right. Note that I did not submit…