eCommerce payment processor EasyDraft is notifying Bright Horizons Family Solutions customers of a breach that started in October 2012 with a misconfigured server. The breach wasn’t discovered until January 2014, however, when Bright Horizons contacted EasyDraft to alert them to the problem. In their report to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, lawyers for EasyDraft write: We…
Category: Breach Incidents
Some police officers breached data protection
New figures reveal five Jersey police officers have left the force in the past four years after snooping at islanders’ personal data. Three were dismissed and two resigned. Meanwhile in another case, one was reprimanded but kept their job, and another incident dating back two years still hasn’t been resolved. It’s led Deputy Mike Higgins…
Official PERL Blogs hacked, 2,924 Author Credentials Leaked by ICR
Today the Islamic Cyber Resistance (ICR) has announced a breach on the official Perl blogs (https://blogs.perl.org) The breach has seen 2,924 user account credentials published to quickleak.org as well as the blog having a deface page added but was not obtrusive to the actually website. In the release note posted by the hackers they state the…
Court guts much of class action lawsuit against Sony over data breach, but some claims remain
An order handed down yesterday by a federal judge in the Southern District of California in In re: SONY GAMING NETWORKS AND CUSTOMER DATA SECURITY BREACH LITIGATION gutted much of the plaintiffs’ lawsuit against Sony over their 2011 PlayStation hack, but allows some important claims to go forward. As background, Judge Battaglia summarized the litigation in the First…
Team Berserk Leak Documents From FBI Fusion Center
Earlier today hackers from TeamBerserk announced a leaked of document data from a FBI Fusion Center. The announcement has been made from the official team berserk twitter account @BerserkTeam and they have claimed the documents come from a FBI intelligence fusion center and only contain unclassified documents for official use only which appear to not…
Crime victims’ and witnesses’ sensitive information on devices stolen from researcher’s university office
Brian Bakst of AP reports: A University of Minnesota law professor has apologized to violent crime victims and witnesses after a computer with sensitive information of nearly 300 people was stolen from his office, but he said Friday that there’s no indication the thief has accessed the data. Criminologist Barry Feld, a prominent juvenile justice…