An Australian based news site has fallen victim to hacking after @TeamBerserk breached its servers and leaked data. The Site, The weste Australian News (thewest.com.au) which redirects to Yahoo is an local west australian based news site. The breach has been posted to pastebin and contains results from some basic SQL injections which have left the sites…
Category: Breach Incidents
Your PII were lost in the mail – Clinical Reference Laboratory (update1)
Clinical Reference Laboratory provides lab tests for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance policy applicants. On September 17, they learned that a billing sent to MassMutual on September 6 with applicants’ names, dates of birth, type of lab test performed, and/or partial or full Social Security numbers had been damaged in transit with USPS and some pages…
AhaShare.com Hacked, Complete database with 190.000 User Credentials Leaked
Torrent users watch out, another popular torrent site has fallen victim to a simple breach which has now left over 190,000 users details leaked. The attack comes from a hacker who goes by the name Nairb who has been around for some time now leaking data frequently. The torrent site that has been breached is…
That was quick…
The Miami Herald reports that it took a federal jury less than one hour to convict a former Miami police officer who misused the D.A.V.I.D. driver’s license database to obtain identity information for a tax refund fraud scheme. Malinsky Bazile had been arrested in March.
Adobe warns 2.9 million customers of data breach after cyber-attack (Update5)
[Note: if you came to this site because you’re having trouble enrolling in Experian’s service with the Adobe activation code, jump to Update 5, below. Please do not simply post that the activation code didn’t work – tell us whether you tried Firefox if you were having problems with another browser.]. Adam Gabbatt reports that…
PayJunction notifies sales agents of breach
PayJunction is notifying sales agents that their names, Social Security numbers, and bank account numbers may have been compromised by unauthorized access to a backup of an internal business system. In a letter sent to those affected, Randy Modos, President of PayJunction, writes that they learned in late September of the July breach. The letter…