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…
Category: Breach Incidents
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…
Worried about Target getting your information if you sign up for the free credit monitoring with Experian? Don’t be.
I’ve seen a number of comments around the web from individuals who are concerned about signing up for the free credit monitoring by Experian that’s been offered by Target. So I contacted Experian and asked them if they share registration information with Target. Here’s the reply I got from Greg Young, Director, Public Relations of Experian Consumer…
Follow-up: Two Members Of Identity Theft Ring Targeting Government Employees Sentenced
There was a follow-up to this case, published January 10 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia: Adrienne Pritchett, 42, of District Heights, Md., was sentenced to 57 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Pritchett has also agreed to pay…