Two more colleges have reported breaches involving employee W-2 data. I’m late picking the first one up, but it seems Allegheny College employees reported problems when filing taxes. On April 14, Angela Mauroni reported that at least 74 non-student employees of the Pennsylvania college had reported such problems. The college believes the information was accessed through the hacking…
Month: April 2016
Movimiento Ciudadanos continues to claim it was hacked despite evidence of leak
What Mexican political party Movimiento Ciudadanos is saying in the wake of a massive data leak is just so inconsistent with available evidence that DataBreaches.net will continue to try explain to the public what the available evidence actually shows. As part of efforts to properly inform the Mexican public about a massive leak involving their information, this site…
UK: Anger and resignations after Welwyn Hatfield Council security breach
Some people take the security of their email addresses very seriously. Alex Lewis reports: An official at Welwyn Hatfield Council sent a routine email to members of the Borough Panel, a formal consultation group with 510 members, but forgot to “blind copy” it. Consequently, everybody receiving the message, about a draft council tax support scheme…
Verifier web site allows you to check to see if your data were in the QNB data dump
The concept of web sites that allow you to check to see if your data were caught up in a hack and data dump really took off after Troy Hunt opened HaveIBeenPwned.com. Now there’s a site that allows you to check to see if your data were caught up in the Qatar National Bank (QNB) data…
Cyber Caliphate posts details of 3,600 New Yorkers online: “We want them #Dead”
Samhati Bhattacharjya reports: A group of hackers linked to the Islamic State have released a hit list of thousands of New York residents and have urged the militant group’s followers to target them. The target list was reportedly posted with an announcement saying “We want them #Dead” on encrypted messaging app Telegram. NBC New York…
Federal contractor with cybersecurity ties notifies employees after W-2 info acquired by targeted phishing
I’ve continued to add entities to my list of firms or entities where employee W-2 information was successfully phished by emails purporting to be from an entity’s executive. One notification I read this morning made me cringe because the firm that was successfully phished has contracts with the government involving mission critical systems for U.S. and coalition…