Its been a while since yourikan has been in headlines but that’s about to change. Today yourikan has contacted cwn with a breach on Iran Airtour (https://www.iranairtours.ir/) which is one of Iran’s main airlines which deals with freight, travel tours and chartered flights. > Iran Airtour was established in 1973 by the Iran Air, the Airline of…
Category: Breach Incidents
Australian customers’ private phone calls online
Ben Grubb reports: “This call may be recorded for training and quality purposes.” And perhaps inadvertently uploaded to the internet if you’re a customer of a certain Australian telco. Recorded voice contracts containing personally identifiable information between telco IF Telecom and its customers have been found online by an Australian security expert while performing a…
NY: Town of Brookhaven data breach ‘was clerical error,’ officials say
Deon J. Hampton reports: Brookhaven Supervisor Edward P. Romaine on Thursday handed off an investigation into the inadvertent online posting of personal information to the town’s law department — the same unit that made the mistake. […] Town officials did not release the name of the employee who mistakenly made public the Social Security numbers…
UK: ICO fines Glasgow City Council £150K
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…
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…