Remember the breach reported by New York State Electric & Gas (NYSEG) and Rochester Gas and Electric (RG&E) back in January? Jeff Platsky reports the results of an investigation into the utilities’ security: A potential data breach at New York State Electric & Gas Corp. not only drew the ire of customers but is now…
Author: Dissent
Phandroid Forum reports breach, urges password reset
Posted to the Phandroid Forum on July 10: I have some unfortunate news to pass along. Yesterday I was informed by our sever/developer team that the server hosting androidforums.com was compromised and the website’s database was accessed. While the breach is most likely harmless there are important and potential pitfalls, and we want to provide…
IL: X-ray films stolen from Rockford's SwedishAmerican
SwedishAmerican Hospital officials reported today that X-ray films were stolen from the hospital back in May, but they don’t believe patients risk identity theft or other harm from the incident. The films were stolen from the hospital May 31 by a person who claimed to be an employee of the vendor hired to pick up…
Filesharing Admin Arrested for Selling User Database
From Torrent Freak: Italian police have arrested the 49-old operator of a handful of file-sharing sites that were previously shut down. The man, known online under the pseudonym “Tex Willer”, allegedly made over half a million euros profit from the sites. Besides copyright infringement, tax evasion, forgery and fraud, he is also accused of selling…
Update: Teenager charged in Eugene school data breach
Susan Palmer reports an update to a previously noted breach: Eugene police have arrested a teenage suspect on suspicion of hacking into the Eugene School District’s computer system in a June incident that potentially compromised thousands of student records and sent parents on a scramble to make sure their children did not become victims of…
Hackers post 450K credentials apparently pilfered from Yahoo (update1)
Steven Musil reports: Yahoo appears to have been the victim of a security breach that yielded more than hundreds of thousands of login credentials stored in plain text. The hacked data, posted to the hacker site D33D Company, contained more than 453,000 login credentials and appears to have originated from the Web pioneer’s network. The…