Jeff Nagel reports: More than 270 drivers who have just registered for the new Port Mann Bridge tolling system are being warned a privacy breach may have compromised their accounts. An unauthorized employee who got the job in the Coquitlam service centre under false pretences and took the registrations of affected drivers by phone was…
Author: Dissent
Ca: Criminals hack into high school computer system to access FBI, CIA
Hackers have been using a Bay Area school district’s computer system to try hack into top secret government agencies. Like all school districts, the San Mateo Union High School District is heavily computerized with general public access and password only access to many of its files, but the district discovered a security breach after receiving…
Tulsa IT Director On Administrative Leave After False Alarm Website ‘Hack’
Left hand, meet right hand. Dee Duren reports: The City of Tulsa announced that no personal information was compromised in a recent website “hack.” In fact, what they thought was a security breach was actually a test by a third-party firm hired by the City’s Internet technology department. The incident cost the City about $20,000 for a…
California settles with Anthem Blue Cross over data breach
Cross-posted from PHIprivacy.net: Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced a settlement with one of California’s largest health insurers over allegations the company failed to protect the personal information of its members. The lawsuit, which was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court today along with the settlement, alleges that Blue Cross of California, which does business under…
California settles with Anthem Blue Cross over data breach (updated)
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced a settlement with one of California’s largest health insurers over allegations the company failed to protect the personal information of its members. The lawsuit, which was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court today along with the settlement, alleges that Blue Cross of California, which does business under the…
ProjectWestWind: TeamGhostShell hacks and dumps 120,000 records from 100 U.S. and non-U.S. universities (updated)
Over on Softpedia, Eduard Kovacs alerts us all to a paste from a group of hackers who call themselves TeamGhostShell. In a paste today on Pastebin, they introduce “ProjectWestWind,” exposing the hacks and vulnerabilities in universities around the world. I’m deleting their rationale and links to data dumps, but here’s a bit of their…