I’m somewhat surprised this took so long. Back in October, I blogged about a breach involving the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) in Arizona. The breach involved sensitive information such as names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and bank account information of 2.49 million students, former students, vendors and employees. Judging by the almost 100 comments in…
Category: Breach Incidents
2013 DataBreach Report By Risk Based Security
Today Riskbasedsecurity.com has announced a report that covers the 2013 period for databreaches of all kinds. The report ventures into different types of data breaches which i do not normally cover but these are the data breaches that happen every day and have been for years. The breaches which have been used in the report…
C’mon, FTC, when will you do something? (update 2)
It has now been about two years since I filed a complaint with the FTC to alert them to all the data security breaches involving Experian’s credit report database. And while I continue to wait to see the FTC take action against Experian over their numerous breaches involving misuse of clients’ login credentials, Experian…
Cost of Target data breach exceeds $200M so far just for card replacement-related costs for 22M customers
From the Credit Union National Association: Financial institutions continue to respond to the massive data breach at Target. According to data collected by the Consumer Bankers Association (CBA) and the Credit Union National Association the costs associated with the Target data breech (sic) exceed $200 million. CBA estimates the cost of card replacements for its members to have reached…
Muslim Directory hacked, 38,903 User Credentials Leaked
A hacker using the handle @th3inf1d3l has today announced an leak of data from muslimdirectory.co.uk resulting in 38,903 User credentials being leaked online. The breach has been announce from th3inf1d3l’s twitter account with a link to pastebin which contains a short message, some server and database information and a link to the complete leak on stashbox.org. OpFuckMohammad…
Forbes Breach Email Statistics
Total of 1,056,986 E-mail’s Found are unique. Total of 111,735 E-mail Providers 564 FORBES.COM 844 .GOV 14,572 .EDU Below is a list of all email providers that have 2 or more in the breach. (full list here) Article: https://datalossdb.org gmail.com: [407769] yahoo.com: [181617] hotmail.com: [86667] aol.com: [25032] justafou.com: [20092] asertol1.co.tv: [17472] comcast.net: [11368] live.com: [9842] xamog.com:…