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California Department of Insurance Vulnerability Potentially Exposed Thousands of SSN and Other Personal Information

Posted on January 5, 2019 by Dissent

DataBreaches.net was recently contacted by an Indian cybersecurity firm, Banbreach, about a vulnerability involving the California Department of Insurance site. According to Banbreach, they notified the California Department of Insurance (CDI) that interactive.web.insurance.ca.gov was hosting an oracle reporting server that had generated more than 24,450 reports in the prior 24 hours. Most of the reports…

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Dublin’s tram service website taken offline after being held to ransom

Posted on January 5, 2019 by Dissent

Luke Irwin reports: Luas, Dublin’s tram service, has taken its website offline after a criminal hacker hijacked the site and left a ransom demand. The crook claims to have breached Luas’s systems and has threatened to publish its customers’ data if the organisation doesn’t pay 1 bitcoin (about €3,375) in the next five days. Read…

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KS: Wichita State U. employees fall victim to phishing scam, lose paychecks

Posted on January 4, 2019 by Dissent

Suzanne Perez Tobias reports: At least three employees of Wichita State University did not receive their paychecks recently after they were targeted by computer hackers. The employees were victims of an e-mail phishing scheme, which asked them to type in their university ID number and password, allowing scammers to access bank account numbers, student records…

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Exclusive: National Life Group denies claim by thedarkoverlord that they were hacked; independent insurance agency appears to be the actual victim

Posted on January 4, 2019 by Dissent

Hackers claimed to have hacked hundreds of thousands of records from National Life Group, but investigation points to Sterling National Financial Group as the likely hacked entity The blackhat hacker/extortionist(s) known as thedarkoverlord (TDO) ended 2018 and welcomed 2019 with a number of bold announcements about large hacks. One of those announcements was their claim in a since-removed paste that…

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So this didn’t work, either…

Posted on January 1, 2019 by Dissent

Thousands of kids’ names, grades, and their parents’ names and email addresses exposed but they do not respond to notifications via email or their site. I received an autoresponse that they’d get back to me soon. That was on August 5. And then again on August 12 when I tried again. So then I tried…

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thedarkoverlord releases files related to 9/11 investigations and litigation; threatens to release more if companies don’t pay up

Posted on January 1, 2019 by Dissent

While most people in the U.K. and U.S. might have been preparing for New Year’s Eve celebrations, the hackers known as thedarkoverlord had their own plans for the evening, and their plans seemed to involve spoiling the plans of a number of corporative executives on both sides of the Atlantic. Earlier in the day, the…

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