2016 has started off to be an interesting year so far and today makes it just that little more so as a well known paste site KickAssPastes appears to have been sent a take down notice on behalf of Citi from a company who conducts cyber intelligence. It all started when KickAssPastes posted earlier today a…
Category: Breach Incidents
KY: Retired firemen address board after newsletter containing sensitive information circulates
Lana Bellamy reports: A group of firefighters are concerned about possible identity theft in light of the publication of sensitive personal information on Ashland Commissioner Kevin Gunderson’s electronic newsletter. Last month, Gunderson’s regular electronic newsletter “Kevin Mail” had documents attached containing the names, partial Social Security numbers and pension member identification numbers on invoices related…
GCHQ Official Twitter Suspended
Couple of weeks ago i started on a small side project as a way of playing with Ruby On Rails and as a result i came up with a nice tool that utilizes the twitter API and checks for suspended accounts in a ethical non-intrusive way. So far most of the finds have been porn…
Illinois couple blames McBride, Lock for data breach
Molly English-Bowers reports: An Illinois couple is suing a Missouri business, alleging a data breach exposed their Social Security information, among other sensitive documentation. Jennifer Bohnenstiehl and Timothy Bohnenstiehl, individually and on behalf of others similarly situated, filed the lawsuit Jan. 25 in St. Clair County Circuit Court against McBride, Lock & Associates of Missouri….
Twitter 0day claim exposes users emails
update: Turns out this isn’t an 0day but more a glitch in twitters own service and security. – Today a twitter user going by the name of @XTM_lulz who claims to be 13… and has a very long history of getting his account suspended on twitter started announcing that they had got a twitter 0day. lol…
Almost 31,000 patients notified after laptop stolen from business associate Seim Johnson
From the ah-so-that-explains-it dept.: I had emailed Seim Johnson yesterday to inquire about a breach they reported to HHS that affected 30,972 patients. According to HHS’s breach tool, the incident, reported on February 8, involved the theft of a laptop. I haven’t received a response from Seim Johnson yet, but Community Hospital patients in McCook,…