The Chinese and Hong Kong Sports Federation & Olympic Committee website has been breached leaving a load of personal details leaked on the Internet. The attack comes from a hacker using the handle @G3NTbl4ck who has recently been attacking many other sites and leaking data from the databases. The Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hon Kong and China is the…
Category: Breach Incidents
Yahoo Japan suspects 22 million IDs stolen
Last month, Yahoo! Japan disclosed that it had discovered that malware inserted in its system had extracted user data for 1.27 million users, but that the breach was stopped before it leaked any of the information outside of the company. Now, in what appears to be an unrelated incident, the company reports that it suspects…
TerraCom notifies 150,000 Lifeline applicants after breach
Here’s a breach I didn’t see in the media but first learned of from the Wisconsin Office of Privacy Protection. According to that office, on April 26, 2013, TerraCom, a wireless learned of a security breach involving unauthorized access to personal data and downloaded files related to over 150,000 individuals. The data was stored on…
MS: Head Start records containing personal information stolen from Moss Point office
April Havens reports: Residents’ personal information could be in jeopardy after someone took Head Start records from Jackson County Civic Action Committee Inc.’s Jefferson Street facility in Moss Point. Spokeswoman Hannah Donegan sent out a news release today saying the theft occurred between April and April 24, and a police report has been filed in…
Nuix and EDRM republish Enron data set cleansed of more than 10,000 items containing private, health and financial information
A follow-up to an issue recently raised by BeyondRecognition.net and discussed on this blog. SAN FRANCISCO, CA – May 15, 2013 — Nuix, a worldwide provider of information management technologies, and EDRM, the leading standards organization for the eDiscovery and information governance market, have today republished the EDRM Enron PST Data Set after cleansing it of private,…
$200,000 suggested for SCDOR hacking compensation fund
Andrew Shain reports: South Carolina should set aside $200,000 next year for a fund to compensate victims of the massive computer hacking at the S.C. Department of Revenue, state Sen. Vincent Sheheen and state Treasurer Curtis Loftis proposed Tuesday. The fund would be administered like the state’s unclaimed property operation, headed by the treasurer’s office….