AHW LLC in Illinois operates a number of online stores. In May, and as noted previously on this blog, they notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that Green Fun Store (greenfunstore.com) had apparently been comprised during the fourth quarter of 2012. They were alerted to the breach in March by their credit card vendor, Evalon,…
Category: Breach Incidents
Ouch: Tumblr gaffe exposed passwords in plain text
Tumblr, which had to apologize to iOS users for revealing email addresses and passwords back in July, may need to start apologizing again for what appears to be another screw-up. A DataBreaches.net reader writes: I received a notice from Tumblr that congratulated me for 1 year with them. Problem is, instead of using my user…
Huge Italian Government Leaked with small link to Canada Child Porn Bust
Today Anonymous hacktivist have leaked further information from the Italian government in a on going dump of data. The data has again been leaked via cyberguerilla, uploaded to anonfiles and bayfiles as well as a preview of the documents on imgur. The documents are from or about Lombardy Governor Roberto Maroni mostly PDF files and images…
UK: Foyle Women’s Aid undertaking and follow-up
I guess the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) doesn’t publicly post all undertakings, as we are first finding out about an August undertaking in November, when a follow-up was conducted and disclosed. In June 2012, the ICO learned that a folder belonging to a Criminal Justice Support worker employed by Foyle Women’s Aid, was left in a…
Public Statement From @ItsKahuna over Sentencing
Recently a well known hacktivist John Anthony Borell III aka @ItsKahuna was sentenced to 3 years jail with a $227,736 restitution fine and 3 years supervised release which is set to start by 6th of December 2013. Today Borell has released a statement via a 3rd party from his twitter account which has been inactive since 24th…
Indonesians Framing Aussies, Aussies to Indonesia: We do not want War!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34nyxLFH5ks Recent news about NSA and Australian government spying on the people of Indonesia has sparked outrage from Indonesians online. As a result i have already reported on the hundreds of innocent websites that have been attacked, the failed attempt to take down ASIO.gov.au and DOD.gov.au but now it appears the Indonesian hackers and media…