Mike Rosenberg reports: The Tech, the popular downtown San Jose museum, said Wednesday that a hacker broke into three old files lingering on its system. The thief captured museum members’ names, email addresses, home addresses and phone numbers and posted them to Twitter on Friday before the information was taken down. Museum spokesman Roqua Montez…
Category: Breach Incidents
(update) Data breach potentially exposes 250 Clark College students’ information
More on an incident mentioned previously on this blog from Ian Larson in The Oregonian: A cyberattack last week may have exposed the personal information, including the names and student identification numbers, of 250 Clark College students. Nine students’ social security numbers were also briefly exposed in the data breach. The college quickly secured its computer systems…
AU: Telstra mail bungle breached Privacy Act
Josh Taylor reports: Telstra breached the Privacy Act by sending out tens of thousands of letters to the wrong addresses, according to the Australian Privacy Commissioner, which led to the personal information of about 60,300 Telstra customers being sent to the wrong people. In October last year, the Australian Communications and Media Authority and the…
Washington Post reports breach of job seeker data (updated)
Elinor Mills reports: About 1.27 million user IDs and email addresses belonging to people looking for employment on The Washington Post jobs website were affected by a data breach in June, the newspaper has said. “We discovered that an unauthorised third party attacked our Jobs website and was able to obtain access to certain user…
Florida court’s tango down by Operation Orlando, Anonymous
Anonymous has been going flat out with operation Orlando taking and keeping websites offline for hours at a time. The 4th of july was a big day for the operation that seen a lot of government websites crash. Today we have seen Florida courts website go offline. Screen shots:
BPM Data base leaked by p0keu in the name of #AntiSec
BPM is the world’s largest event dedicated to DJing, electronic music production and club culture has had its whole database leaked via twitter. This attack comes from https://visitbpm.co.uk and is in the name of anti security otherwise known as #antisec. This attack has been leaked by @p0keu via twitter,document contains quite a big dump of plain text…