Rex Mundi has hacked and dumped data from Temporis, a French employment/recruitment agency. As they have done in the past, the hackers issued a statement and announced the data dump on Twitter, where they currently post as @rexmundi15: Last week, we hacked the servers of Temporis, allegedly France’s largest network of franchised temp work agencies (www.temporis-franchise.fr). From their…
Category: Breach Incidents
U. Chicago hacked by Carbonic – claim (Updated)
It appears we should add the University of Chicago to schools hacked by Carbonic. And yes, chalk it up to another SQLi vulnerability. In a statement to DataBreaches.net, @MarxistAttorney reported that they got payroll information, employee IDs and a “substantial amount of information they didn’t publicize.” A copy of the url vulnerable to SQLi exploit was…
U. of Hawaii and Cornell University hacked by @MarxistAttorney
Add the University of Hawaii and Cornell University to the universities that have been hacked by @MarxistAttorney. The U. of Hawaii data dump, which DataBreaches.net is not linking to, does not contain student or employee personal information, but in addition to acquiring the root username/password, “Attorney” also got the mac addresses, service tags, usernames and more…
Chinese Criminals Blamed for Record Japan Bank Cybertheft
Monami Yui and Shingo Kawamoto report: Japanese savers keeping their money in banks are falling prey to cybertheft in record numbers, and police say Chinese crime groups are increasingly to blame. Criminals stole 1.85 billion yen ($16 million) from accounts at lenders including Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. (8306) and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. (8316) in the six months ended…
Scottish Widows data protection error ‘costs customer £50k’
Tessa Norman reports: A Scottish Widows customer claims the provider has cost him £50,000 after it breached the Data Protection Act by sending details of his pension to his ex-wife. The provider has offered the customer, who cannot be named for legal reasons, £500 in compensation for sending the information to an unauthorised address. But…
An open letter to the Guardians of Peace
To the members of the Guardians of Peace (GOP): We don’t know each other, and I’d prefer to keep it that way, but I can’t just sit silently by while you plan to deliver privacy harms to tens of thousands of people. Frankly, I don’t give a rat’s ass about Sony’s trade secrets or intellectual property….