RBS writes: We need your help to contact an organization that has thus far been unresponsive to numerous notifications that we have sent about a discovered data breach! Read on to understand the issue and see how you can help! We know that we have become a bit of a broken record when it comes to…
Category: Breach Incidents
SG: Fined for leaking 8,000 people’s personal data
K.C. Vijayan A printing firm hired by an insurance company sent erroneous account statements to policyholders that resulted in more than 8,000 people having their personal data leaked. The data breach by Toh-Shi Printing Singapore was its second such infringement and it was fined $25,000 last month by the Personal Data Protection Commission Singapore (PDPC)…
thedarkoverlord dumps data from Peachtree Orthopedics after failed extortion attempts
Just another day on the internet, where hackers are hacking and leakers are leaking and thedarkoverlord is dumping PHI data from american based companies yet again. The associated with this partial leak of data is not anything new, databreaches.net had reported on this a back in august and now thedarkoverlord has partially come public with…
Leaked Data Site Datawh0re hacked, All Dump links Exposed
Recently there has been a huge increase in hacked databases being shared and also sold, and now it appears that one of the services that surfaced a few weeks ago and has already been hacked, dumped and had its domain name revoked. Datawh0re which was found at datawh0re.ru was offering databases for sale and this…
Aesthetic Dentistry Hacked by thedarkoverlord
Today a hacker using the name @tdohack3r aka thedarkoverlord has announced a small breach on another service that has exposed PII (personal identifiable information) and PHI (personal health information). This breach announced today was on Aesthetic Dentistry and appears that it may only effect a small amount of 3,500 persons which is very small compared…
FTC v. LabMD: Brace for the Ripple Effect
Ricci Dipshan and C. Ryan Barber have an article on the importance and possible implications of LabMD’s challenge to the FTC’s application of their Section 5 authority when it comes to data security. Here’s a snippet: The lack of tangible evidence in the case is hard to overstate. While LabMD, like the many other companies…