The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued Glasgow City Council with a monetary penalty of £150,000 following the loss of two unencrypted laptops, one of which contained the personal information of 20,143 people. The serious breach of the Data Protection Act comes after the council was previously issued with an enforcement notice three years ago, following a…
Category: Breach Incidents
Raley’s warns customers after network attacked
Katie Nelson reports: The Raley’s supermarket chain warned customers Thursday that part of the company’s computer network may have been targeted in a cyber attack. The company stated in a news release that it could not confirm if any unauthorized access had been made to payment card data, but that an internal investigation remains ongoing….
Anonymous Leaks Documents & E-mails Used by NSA for PRISM
Over the past week there has been huge tension building about the NSA and the way it gets Intel. Its come to light from main stream media that the NSA is said to be working along side some of the worlds biggest social networking websites to extract and mine data for Intel. This alone has caused…
Victorinox Breached, Data Leaked by @Ag3nt47
A hacker who uses the handle @Ag3nt47 has today announced a leak from the well known Swiss army knife maker Victorinox. Victorinox is credited for creating and making the well known Swiss army knife back 1884 by the current owners grand father. When my great-grandfather Karl Elsener opened a cutlery workshop to deliver a soldier knife…
Update on Lookitsme Breach, Statement and updates
Last week a hacker using the handle @st0rmyw0rm breached a site named Lookitsme and leaked data from its database. Tonight when looking i noticed that the breached website lookitsme.co.uk was redirecting to an offline.html which had a link to the facebook page of the website. On the page it appears that the administrator has announced on the…
Bangladeshi Air force Recruitment Site hacked, Database leaked
The Bangladeshi Air force Recruitment (https://www.joinbangladeshairforce.mil.bd) has been in our headlines before, but for the wrong reasons as the then leak was proven as fake. How ever i have been alerted to a leak that was posted to pastebin on Jun 3rd 2013 that comes from its servers and this time it appears to be in…