This post is part of an extended interview conducted by DataBreaches.net and CyberWarNews.info with the hacker formerly known as “GhostShell.” Q: How did your hacktivism start? I created the AnonOpsRomania account on the 1st of January [2012] after realising that it didn’t exist in the public eye. Mind you, this was at a time when…
Month: March 2016
GhostShell, On the Record – The Extended Interview
“When it’s the middle of the night and you realise you’ve just been attacking and mapping entire cyber continents the only thought left in your head is “Who even cares anymore?” — Razvan Eugen Gheorghe, formerly known as “GhostShell” Over the past two weeks, DataBreaches.net and CyberWarNews.info had the opportunity to explore a number of topics…
“Paging Kinoptic developer to Aisle 4 to clean up your mess”
Chris Vickery sends along this alert to everyone who used the iPhone app Kinoptic and/or who may know how to get in touch with the developer: Post-mortem breaches can be just as harmful as live production leaks… at least for these 198,000 people. About three years ago there was an iPhone app named Kinotopic. According to…
Staminus Breach: Just How Bad Is It?
RiskBasedSecurity has analyzed the available data dump and boy, this breach was bad, involving their full source code on top of everything else. Read RBS’s analysis here.
Riverside woman to be sentenced for fraud, ID theft of 50 medical patients
Debbie L. Sklar reports: A Riverside woman is expected to be sentenced Monday to at least two years in federal prison for stealing the private information of more than 50 patients of a Long Beach residential medical facility. Bridgette Jackson, 45, was convicted by a Los Angeles federal jury in January of conspiring to possess more…
Stolen laptop with patient info returned; no evidence ever powered on
Wow. You don’t see this type of thing too often. Premier Healthcare has an important update to their breach notification of March 3 that affected 206,000 patients. From their statement today: Missing Premier Healthcare Laptop Recovered Last week, Premier Healthcare, LLC, a Bloomington, Indiana, based physician-led multispecialty healthcare provider group, reported that a laptop computer had been…