From the who-put-the-frying-pan-in-that-fire dept. Several weeks ago, DataBreaches.net received a complaint concerning a breach involving the Montgomery County Housing Opportunities Commission in Maryland. It seems that a vendor’s 1099 tax statement had been sent to the wrong recipient. It was not a particularly unusual breach, but the 1099 had been sent as an unencrypted attachment to an email, so I read…
Category: Breach Incidents
#opicarus sparks take down notice for KickAssPastes.com
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…
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…