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…
Category: Breach Incidents
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…
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…