PayPal UK is currently under attack via its twitter account recking its reputation…lol, sorry but its funny. One of the biggest players in the game can not even keep its accounts safe, with cnn and other accounts being taken whats next? heads up boys/girls @Cyber_War_News đ The hackers are spamming the www.paypalsucks.com website, its unclear…
Category: Breach Incidents
Computer-Hacking Group Targets Apple In Latest Attack
Well, by now it may not be their latest attack, as the news report by Ian Sherr was published yesterday in the Wall Street Journal: A group of computer hackers on Sunday posted a document it claimed contains usernames and passwords for an Apple Inc. server, the latest in a string of brazen attacks that have compromised…
Indiana Attorney General reaches settlement with WellPoint in consumer data breach
Health insurer WellPoint Inc. will pay the State a $100,000 settlement over a data breach where the personal information of thousands of WellPoint customers was potentially accessible via the Internet. The settlement resolves a lawsuit that Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller’s office filed under a new data-breach notification law passed in 2009. “This case should…
Oops: Dolphin Reveals Email Addresses of Beta Testers
From the Dolphin Support blog: Yesterday we sent an e-mail to a number of consumers who are our beta testers for Dolphin Browser HD v6.0. This time is different from our monthly newsletter in that we decided to send out the emails separately by using another email service. Through an unfortunate error by one of…
CWN First news Update
Time for a little update, We have been working flat out the last week with researching, tweeting, writing, chatting, met a lot of new people, learnt a few new things and most of all getting the site to run perfect, which we have come across a few problems First before having a further bitch about the…
[corrected] Missing Plymouth State University backup drive contained Social Security Numbers of 1,059 students
On May 18, Plymouth State University noticed that an external hard drive that they used for backup purposes was missing. One of the files on the drive was a spreadsheet that contained  the names and Social Security numbers of 1,059 students enrolled in the teacher education and certification program between 2005 and 2010. As the…