Sam Biddle reports: Booz Allen Hamilton is a massive American consulting firm that does a substantial amount of work for the Pentagon. This means they’ve got a lot of military business on their servers—which Anonymous hacked. Today they’ve leaked it. The leak, dubbed ‘Military Meltdown Monday,’ includes 90,000 logins of military personnel—including personnel from US…
Author: Dissent
UK: News International papers targeted Gordon Brown (updated with apology from The Guardian)
The explosive scandal in the U.K. involving phone hacking is not something I’ve covered on this blog, but a story about it caught my eye. Nick Davies and David Leigh report: Journalists from across News International repeatedly targeted the former prime minister Gordon Brown, attempting to access his voicemail and obtaining information from his bank…
2 held over Baidu personal info leak
Zha Minjie reports in The Shanghai Daily: Shanghai police said yesterday that two suspects have been caught for allegedly revealing online the personal information of more than 1,700 local apartment owners in a residential complex in the Pudong New Area. Access to the leaked data has now been blocked from Baidu’s database, according to police….
If you were a customer of Geoff Gray Corporation, your breach notification letter may be in the mail
Financial services provider Geoff Gray Corporation notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office this week of a “potential security breach” that occurred sometime between June 9th – when one of their servers was working properly and accessible – and June 14, when they were notified that the server wasn’t accessible. Their July 5th letter states that…
Hacker sentenced to 10 years in prison
There are so many press releases these days about people being sentenced for ID theft or hacking that I often just skim them, but this one caught my eye. Mark Morris reports on the sentencing of Sael Mustafa … According to prosecutors, Mustafa hacked into websites of several businesses, including that of the Capital Grille…
Kiplinger Warns Customers Hackers Got Account, Credit Card Information
Michael Riley reports: Kiplinger Washington Editors Inc., the publisher of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, is warning customers that account data, including credit card numbers, was stolen on June 25 by hackers who breached its computer network. Doug Harbrecht, the company’s director of new media, said the attackers stole user names, passwords and encrypted credit card numbers…