Anthony Dowsley reports: The lives of informers and police officers have been put at risk over the “gravest” of leaks from inside the force. Police raids across Melbourne three weeks ago discovered volumes of confidential and sensitive police files dating back three years. So far, a junior police officer from the northern metro region has…
Category: Breach Incidents
Hacktivism a recipe for harassment
Krista Simmons of LAist explains: Recently, two Orange County restaurants — Arc and The Broadway — were threatened with lawsuits by PETA for their serving of foie gras. The fattened goose livers have become quite the political issue amongst food lovers, chefs, and animal rights activists since they were banned last summer, and some, like chefs Noah Blom…
FTC Approves Final Order Settling Charges Against Cbr Systems, Inc.
Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order settling charges that Cbr Systems, Inc. failed to protect the security of customers’ personal information and that its inadequate security practices led to a breach that exposed the Social Security numbers and debit and credit card information of nearly 300,000 consumers. As part…
Official MSI Taiwan Hacked 50,000 Accounts & Other Data leaked, Sites Defaced
One of the worlds largest Hardware companies MSI has been breached in its official Taiwan server by well known hacker group Turkish Ajan Hacker Group. The attack was announced just a very short time ago from twitter by the official Turkish Ajan Hacker group twitter account @TurkishAjan which had posted a leak of information and a link to a few very…
Official French Defense Subdomain hacked and defaced
The official French ministry of defense website has come under attack and as a result one of its sub domains has been left defaced. The attack comes from @HBVirus1 who first announced the defacement about 12 hrs ago on twitter. > Ministère de la Défense rcp1.terre.defense.gouv.fr #Hacked #Defaced @youranonnews @eduardkovacs @ehackernews @hackread @thehackersnews — HBVirus1…
Lessons from EDRM/FERC/Enron Data Privacy Breaches (updated)
Thanks to Joe Howie of BeyondRecognition.net for alerting me to what appears to be a very long-running, inadequately remedied breach that has exposed – and may be continuing to expose – the Social Security numbers and other personal information of thousands of people. I am posting this with some hesitation, as the data may still…