The Turkish hacktivist collective RedHack claims to have hacked Turkish ISP TTNET as well as mobile operator Vodafone and Turkcell. They announced the hack this afternoon: Customer data of ISP TTNET, mobile operator Vodafone and Turkcell infiltrated and vast amount of data collected from the systems. + — RedHack_EN (@RedHack_EN) February 3, 2014 They also claim…
Category: Breach Incidents
NullCrew attack on Bell Canada was SQL injection and Bell knew weeks ago – NullCrew (update 2)
NullCrew has responded to Bell’s claim that it was a third-party supplier who got hacked by providing DataBreaches.net with more details about the hack and their conversations with Bell alerting them to the breach. In an interview today, NullCrew revealed that they had access to Bell’s server for months, and had disclosed that to them…
Bell Canada statement on NullCrew hack (Update 1)
Bell has issued a press release in response to claims they were hacked by NullCrew: Bell today announced that 22,421 user names and passwords and 5 valid credit card numbers of Bell small-business customers were posted on the Internet this weekend. The posting results from illegal hacking of an Ottawa-based third-party supplier’s information technology system. In…
Bell Internet Hacked, 40,000 Customer Credentials leaked by @NullCrew_FTS
Today the official NullCrew has returned to the hack scene with a leak of data from Bell Internet (https://www.bell.ca/) after about 12months away. > Bell Canada has been one of Canada’s most important and most powerful companies, and in 1975 was listed as the fifth largest in the country. The company is named after the…
Provider of Medical Transcript Services Settles FTC Charges That It Failed to Adequately Protect Consumers’ Personal Information
Press release from the FTC, followed by my comments: A company that provides medical transcription services has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its inadequate data security measures unfairly exposed the personal information of thousands of consumers on the open Internet, in some instances including consumers’ medical histories and examination notes. In its complaint…
Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah: Campers’ information stolen by camp employee
Nathan Brown reports that a Town of Rosendale man (in upstate New York) has been charged with selling the personal information of campers and their parents at Camp Rov Tov, Rov Tov is a boys’ camp affiliated with a Satmar Jewish school in Brooklyn; they have camps in Dairyland, Kerhonkson, Napanoch and Ellenville in Ulster…