Fred Finch Youth Center (FFYC) is in the process of notifying 6,871 current and former clients and program participants of a potential breach of Protected Health Information (PHI), after discovering a break-in had occurred at one of FFYC’s San Diego County locations on the weekend of April 4th, 2015. When discovered on Monday, April 6, police determined that burglars…
Category: Breach Incidents
Bengal: Confidential data theft; 1 arrested
The cyber cell of Bidhannagar city police today arrested a youth on charges of stealing and selling confidential details of the clients of an IT company to various cyber crime rackets, causing losses amounting to Rs 2.5 crore, police said. Police arrested Arijit Debnath from Salt Lake Sector-V and seized a pen drive and a mobile phone which were used to steal and keep customer details of the IT…
UK: ‘Outrage’ in Mansfield and Ashfield after personal records of hundreds of residents found dumped in bin
Joe Malone reports: Residents across Mansfield and Ashfield have been left ‘outraged’ after hearing that their private documents were found dumped in a recycle bin on Wednesday. The documents belong to a quick cash loan company called Morsesclub, who merged together with Shopacheck Financial Services Limited in March. Among the documents found in Sutton, were…
Japan’s pension system hacked, 1.25 million cases of personal data leaked
William Mallard of Reuters reports another breach due to successful phishing of employees: Japan’s pension system has been hacked and more than a million cases of personal data leaked, authorities said on Monday, in an embarrassment that revived memories of a scandal that helped topple Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in his first term in office. Japan…
Yemen Cyber Army dumps visa data from Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Yemen Cyber Army (YCA) has released more data from its hack of the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs (previous coverage here and here). Media sources reported after the first disclosure that Riyadh confirmed the internal Internet network attack but disputed the extent of the hack. At this rate, their protestations might want to be walked…
Hacker accesses Gaana.com user data after site fails to respond to security alerts
Gwyn D’Mello reports that an online music site was hacked to make a point after they failed to secure their site despite multiple warnings: A white hat hacker used an exploit to gain access to Gaana.com user credentials, because they neglected to fix a security bug he reported. It seems Gaana.com was hacked a few…