Obviously there’s a political agenda here, but it’s curious I hadn’t heard about any breach until I read this press release. There is no notice on the Ontario PSW site concerning any breach: Concerns and questions are mounting over the lack of provincial government action and oversight following a serious security breach at an employer-run…
Category: Breach Incidents
National American University students’ financial information exposed, but what laws protect them?
Joe O’Sullivan reports: When National American University moved from one Rapid City campus to a new location earlier this year, the school or a contractor appears to have improperly disposed of thousands of sensitive student financial records that included names, addresses, loan numbers and Social Security numbers, according to documents reviewed by the Rapid City…
Credit card fraud in Lake Saint Louis traced to skimmer; suspects apprehended
On November 13, media reported that about 300 people in Lake Saint Louis, Missouri had become victims of credit card fraud. The next day, media reported that the source of the stolen data may have been an ATM skimmer. And on November 22, media reported that two suspects had been apprehended in Omaha on November…
Vegas Tripping hacked, 4,000 Accounts leaked
A hacker using the handle @zVapor has just announced a leak from Vegastripping.com. The announcement was made over twitter and the leak has been posted to pastebin.com. The website is a guide site to the hotels and casinos within Vegas and more so the famous Vegas strip. The leaked data contains all administrator account credentials…
OpUkraine kicked off by r00tsecurity
A group of hackers who call themselves r00ts3curity or #r00ts3c have started attacking Ukraine based websites and leaking data. The attacks appear to be apart of a new operation #OpUkraine and r00tsecurity is made up of a few already known hackers such as @Goons3c. So far they have managed to attack four sites and leak…
UK Council for Graduate Education Rehacked, Internal Message from JANET Posted in Deface
Yesterday i did an article on a leak of data and a defacement on UK Council for Graduate Education (UKCGE) which was carried out by a hacker using the handle smitt3nz It now Appears that after about 3 days since the original data leak and defacement the hacker has returned to re-deface the site with a…