With each day, LulzSec seem more and more to be “hactivists.” Today, they revealed what seems clearly to be a politically motivated hack/compromise. From their press release: We are releasing hundreds of private intelligence bulletins, training manuals, personal email correspondence, names, phone numbers, addresses and passwords belonging to Arizona law enforcement. We are targeting AZDPS specifically because…
Category: Government Sector
Lulzsec 2011 census released – UPDATED – or not!
In a message that undoubtedly should send shudders down the spines of those involved in the security of UK census data, the hacking collective known as LulzSec posted a message on Pastebin yesterday: Greetings Internets, We have blissfully obtained records of every single citizen who gave their records to the security-illiterate UK government for the…
Sg: Hackers steal data from NParks portal
Teh Joo Lin reports: Hackers attacked the website of the National Parks Board (NParks) on Sunday and stole some data belonging to users. When contacted by The Straits Times, the government agency yesterday confirmed the ‘intrusion’ and said it had made a police report. The story is behind The Straits Times paywall and I don’t…
When her data was exposed, Kennedale woman cried foul — and the state listened
Dave Lieber reports: Let’s all stand and cheer for Judy Yacio, a retired Kennedale school principal who struck a blow to stop identity theft. She exposed a flaw in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas that could make it easy for identity thieves to steal her personal banking information. […] After Yacio switched the bank…
(follow-up) UK: Surrey Council boss admits confidence breach ‘mistakes’
Surrey County Council’s chief executive has addressed staff about the ‘irony’ of it picking up a record fine for ‘shocking’ breaches of privacy after he had praised them for their performance. CEO David McNulty made the comments to staff on June 8 in an internal email titled Be Sure You’re Secure. The email followed the…
Part of LulzSec data dump is from Australian entities
In an earlier blog entry tonight, I noted that 12,000 of 62,000 email addresses and passwords posted by LulzSec today came from WriterSpace.com. It appears that the dump also contained a number of people in Australia. ABC News in Australia reports: The group, which took down the CIA website yesterday, has leaked 62,000 worldwide email…