Patrick Howell O’Neill reports: A hacker who claims to be an angry and recently expelled student at London’s University of Greenwich allegedly decided to take revenge by hacking the school’s website, defacing it, and exposing the private credentials for over 21,000 people involved with the school. “So due to my elite skills and e-fame, you…
Category: Breach Incidents
In wake of OPM breach, few sign up for protection services
Meredith Somers reports: Federal employees don’t think their personally identifiable information (PII) is safer than it was one year ago, but new numbers from the Office of Personnel Management show those employees are not taking advantage of the free protection offered in the wake of the massive cyber breach. About 21.5 million current and former federal…
Info on international students and hosting families exposed in misconfigured database
It may be hard to resist naming a database after a favorite movie, but a database named “Coruscant” caught a researcher’s eye when the researcher was searching Shodan.io for exposed databases. And the rest, as they say, well… read on. The Cambridge Institute of International Education (CIIE) is a Boston-based educational consulting firm whose mission is to boost the…
No data stolen in hack: NSW Transport
Updating a previously noted incident. No credit card or personal data was stolen in last week’s breach of the NSW Trainlink online booking system, the transport department said today. Read more on ITnews (AU).
NL: Confidential data stolen from police officer’s car
A break in in a police officer’s private car in Apeldoorn on Monday led to the loss of confidential information on an ongoing investigation, among other things. […] The loot included three laptops, a cellphone, two police identity cards and access cards to police buildings. And a file contain confidential information on an ongoing investigation….
FL: Oviedo business accused of placing former employees at risk of identity theft
A local business that’s closing shop might have placed its recently laid off employees at risk for identity theft, Channel 9 learned. Dozens of employees were laid off from Sun Road, an underground utility company, a few weeks ago and their private information was just tossed into a dumpster. Owner Alfredo Bacci is accused of…