Anonymous hacktivist have today announced and leaked over 4 gigabyte of data from some Italian Politicians. The announcement first came from a simple pastebin post on the 24th of April titled "ANONYMOUS – MOVEMENT 5 STARS LEAK" which was a press release and a sample of what is to come. The leak has now been upload to well…
Category: Breach Incidents
Update to the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic breach
Back in February, I noted that the FBI had been called in to investigate a breach involving the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic. A number of those who signed up for the event had reported credit card fraud. Now lawyers for Iron Horse Bicycle Classic have reported the breach to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office….
Belgian Privacy Commission refers data breach case to Public Prosecutor
On April 29, 2013, the Belgian Privacy Commission announced that it referred a data breach case involving The National Belgian Railway Company to the Brussels Public Prosecutor. The data breach, which occurred in December 2012, resulted in the 1.46 million sets of customer data being made publicly available online. The Privacy Commission investigated the case…
Update: MN seeks dismissal of suits over DNR data breach
Associated Press reports that Minnesota is seeking dismissal of lawsuits stemming from an employee’s improper access to the state’s driver’s license database: The state of Minnesota has asked a federal judge to dismiss five lawsuits filed on behalf of several people who say their driver’s license data was improperly accessed by a Department of Natural…
Fort McClellan Credit Union notifies customers after many cases of debit card fraud
Notice from the Fort McClellan Credit Union in Alabama alerts customers, but the breach was not the credit union’s breach. The breach involves an unnamed or as yet unidentified common point of compromise: ALERT – ALERT – ALERT LETTER TO CREDIT UNION MEMBERS – Debit Card Fraud During March, 2013, several debit card accounts issued…
NTT DoCoMo USA Site taken offline
Over the past week there has been huge attention to a leak of data from the Japanese mobile giant NTT DoCoMo in the name of it supporting CISPA. The news has been a big subject across many different Japanese sites after @LulzSecWiki released a dump of accounts that contain personal credentials. Today the same account has announce…