Right before Christmas, the County of San Diego Benefits Division discovered that some employees’ personal information had been inadvertently shared with Wells Fargo. The problem arose when the county sent personal information of those employees enrolling in a Wells Fargo Health Savings Account. A programming error by the county’s service provider, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services, resulted in the additional transmission…
Category: Breach Incidents
‘Dance Moms’ season 6 cast members hacked again
Janna Dela Cruz reported this last month, but I just came across it today, so with the proviso that I never even heard of this show: “Dance Moms” stars Abby Lee Miller, Maddie Ziegler and other cast members of the Lifetime series were reportedly hacked. TMZ has word that hackers were able to take control of the…
Il: Garbage truck driver finds top secret Navy docs
A military garbage truck driver prevented a potentially devastating IDF information leak on Wednesday, when he discovered highly classified documents from the office of the Navy’s chief of staff while emptying out his vehicle at the Hiriya trash dump site in central Israel. Read more on Times of Israel.
Thai justice system hacked by Blink Hacker Group; personal info dumped
It appears that Anonymous is not quite done going after the Thai justice system with its #BoycottThailand campaign. Recent attacks on almost 300 government sites have been in response to the conviction of two migrant workers in the murder of two British backpackers, David Miller and Hannah Witheridge – a conviction that Anonymous finds totally unjust. Not only has Anonymous defaced government sites,…
JB Autosports customers notified of payment card breach
Jeremy Boysen, President of JB Autosports, Inc is notifying customers who used the subispeed.com and ft86speedfactory.com sites between August 1, 2015 through November 9, 2015, that their payment card data was intercepted during transmission and acquired by an unknown party at a Russian IP address. The breach allowed cyberattackers to intercept customer names, addresses, credit…
NJ: Kean University Hacked Three Times in One Day, Algerian Group Claims Responsibility
It seems that in the week before Christmas, Kean University’s site was attacked and defaced on three occasions. Kathy Lloyd and Charles Kim reported: The Kean University website was hacked three times Sunday and into early Monday morning by what the college and its police department believe to be an Algerian group calling itself “Red Hell.”…