In an example of how to leave breach watchers scratching their heads, NATO issued the following statement on its site yesterday: 23 Jun. 2011 Probable data breach from a NATO-related website Police dealing with digital crimes have notified NATO of a probable data breach from a NATO-related website operated by an external company. NATO’s e-Bookshop…
Category: Breach Incidents
Laptops containing personal information stolen from council building in Kirkby
John Siddle reports: Laptops believed to contain taxi drivers’ personal details were stolen from a Merseyside council building. Twenty-one computers, together worth thousands of pounds, are believed to have also contained the names, addresses, dates of birth and national insurance numbers of cab drivers. Details of environmental health inspections were also stored on the Knowsley…
Sony laid off employees before data breach: Lawsuit
Reuters reports: Sony Corp laid off employees in a unit responsible for network security two weeks before a massive data breach, according to a lawsuit filed this week. Sony also spent lavishly on security to protect its own corporate information, while failing to do the same for its customers’ data, the proposed class action lawsuit…
State extends contract with company that lost West Aurora, Kaneland schools information
Do training using real data? Neither necessary nor smart…. and yet their contract is extended? Matt Brennan reports: West Aurora and Kaneland were the only school districts in the Fox Valley impacted when two laptop computers were recently stolen that contained the personal information of more than 10,000 students and staff from 42 school districts…
KrioXis changes game working for a better tomorrow
As an early posted i reported i mentioned that there was a new player in the game, @KrioXis, i now withdraw that statement as today they have Posted a new statement saying that they are doing it for the good now, and to forget there past… "Today marks a change. Forget our past actions, contact…
Team poison hacks and defaces gumtrees blog
www.gumtree.com.au blog hacked With the cyber war going on, Its finally hit aussie shores again! team poison was taking down apparent LulzSec sites and now is doing there own work it seems. Today at about midday Sydney Australia time, Gumtree.com.au blog was hacked and defaced by team poison with the typical dark bg, green text,…