Today hackers from known hacker collective Turkish Ajan hacker group have posted data from the fast food giant Pizza hut. The leak was announced from the official Turkish Ajan hackers twitter account earlier in the day and as normal the data was posted to speedy share but has since been removed. The hackers have also…
Category: Breach Incidents
TW: Local bank fined over online security breach
Stacy Wu and Jay Chen report: CTBC Bank, one of Taiwan’s top financial institutions, was fined NT$4 million (US$134,000) Thursday for accidentally leaking the personal information of some 33,000 of its e-banking customers. The error allowed the average Internet user to view confidential data, intended for CTBC Bank staff only, for an undisclosed period of…
San Francisco State College of Extended Learning reports breach; one of 500 entities breached
San Francisco State College of Extended Learning is notifying students that a server housing files with their personal information was compromised on March 25, 2013. The college learned of the breach on June 11, when it was notified by federal law enforcement that the server had been used by a group not affiliated with SF…
Investigators say Bow Valley College failed to protect vital info of nearly 200,000
Here’s a breach from almost one year ago that I had missed until this follow-up report. Michael Franklin reports: An investigator into a possible leak of personal information of nearly 200,000 Bow Valley students has found that the institution had indeed failed to protect that information. However, it also says that the school took reasonable…
Montana non-profit warns of possible security breach after Missoula break-in
Dennis Bragg reports: Leaders of the Hospice Care Foundation are warning their clients and donors to be watching for a possible security breach, after thieves steal a laptop during an office break-in. […] The stolen laptop is password protected, but contained some records pertaining to donations, and an upcoming fundraising event. The foundation is working…
Emory University breach announces breach, but provides no details
The University issued the following message to faculty, staff and students on Aug. 8: (h/t/, SC Magazine): Dear Members of the Emory Community: Emory University is investigating a breach of its information technology infrastructure that is similar to incidents recently reported by other academic institutions and large organizations. We are working closely with information security…