There’s an update to a previously claimed hack involving NASA. Thomas CLaburn reports that NASA is investigating a claimed hack, but denies that its drone was hacked: “Control of our Global Hawk aircraft was not compromised,” said Beutel. “NASA has no evidence to indicate the alleged hacked data are anything other than already publicly available…
Month: February 2016
Ca: Tax agency staffer gone after taxpayer data leaks to CSIS
Alison Crawford reports: No one’s saying much about what happened and who’s been held accountable for several breaches of taxpayer privacy at the Canada Revenue Agency. The privacy breaches came to light last week in the annual report of the watchdog for CSIS, Canada’s spy agency. The report described how intelligence officers, repeatedly and without a warrant,…
IE: Potential data security breach at NTMA
BreakingNews.ie reports: The National Treasury Management Agency has notified the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner of a potential data security breach. A spokesman for the NTMA says the incident occurred yesterday as State Claims Agency records were being removed from the NTMA premises for archiving by the NTMA’s off-site document storage provider. During the…
Hawai‘i Medical Service Association notifying members after mailing error exposed protected health information
The Hawai‘i Medical Service Association (HMSA) is notifying about 10,800 members that it mistakenly sent care management letters to incorrect addresses. The misrouted letters did NOT contain financial information, Social Security numbers, HMSA membership numbers, birth dates, claims information, or medical histories. The letters did include member names and steps they could take to identify…
South American Hacktivist Leaks Data from Colombian Government Websites
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The hacker known as Hanom1960 has breached, stole, and leaked information from Colombia’s Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications and Ministry of National Education. Hanom, who claims he’s part of the newer generation of LulsZec members, made its debut on the hacking scene last week, after hacking and dumping data from the Costa…
UK: Teenage computer hacker who downloaded indecent images and stole bank details avoids jail time
The Sussex Police report: A Crawley man has been sentenced for on-line ‘hacking’ based frauds, and for offences relating to indecent images of children. Aaron Coster, 18, unemployed, of Farnham Close, Broadfield, Crawley, was sentenced to a total of two years imprisonment suspended for two years when he appeared at Hove Crown Court on Friday…