Yesterday a hacker using the handle @security_511 posted a leak of data from the Church of Cyprus website ( https://www.churchofcyprus.org.cy/ ). The breach was announced on twitter and leaked data has been posted to pastebin. The Church of Cyprus website is the official website for the church and appears to just be a base for holding information…
Category: Breach Incidents
United Nations Internet Governance Forum Hacked, 3,215 Accounts Leaked
Today hacker collective @deletesec announced a breach and leak of data on a United nations based website. The site is the Internet Governance Forum and it appears to be registered to Chengetai Masango and is also the Programme and Technology Manager at United Nations Secretariat for the Internet Governance Forum. Its purpose is to support the United Nations Secretary-General…
MCCCD IT Employees: ‘District knew about security concerns’
Within hours of DataBreaches.net reporting litigation against Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) and statements by employees claiming that MCCCD is attempting to cover up its lax security by blaming employees, two (other) employees have started publicly revealing more details. Greg Argos of CBS5 (KPHO) reports that the two have come forward with documents to support their…
Arizona law firm files notice of claim over Maricopa County Community College District breach; class-action lawsuit to follow?
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…
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…