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…
Category: Breach Incidents
Follow-up: How did a hacker get into UGA system?
Joe Johnson reports some of the follow-up on University of Georgia hack disclosed last year: University of Georgia officials thought they may have been under attack from multiple hackers when the identities of thousands of employees and students went missing last fall. But it turned out to be the work of a single person, a…
TN: Mayor’s donation check among records found in dumpster
Andy Wise reports: The director of an adult literacy charity is trying to figure out how the personal information of former associates and donors, including Memphis Mayor AC Wharton, were piled up inside the charity’s dumpster. “It absolutely should not have happened,” said Kevin Dean, executive director of Literacy Mid-South, based in Cooper-Young. “It was…
Which breach concerns you more?
Last week, LivingSocial announced a breach affecting 50 million customers. The breach involved names, email addresses, and passwords, but no Social Security numbers or bank account or credit card information. The breach is getting a lot of press. Last month, I reported on a lawsuit in which a John Doe company alleges the IRS apparently…
NTT DoCoMo Releases Notice its been Breached, Apologizes for the credentials leaked
Updated: Translation put together of the press release, credits to YEP A few days ago i did a report on a leak of data that has come from Japanese mobile phone giant DoCoMo that contains credential leak. Over the past few days this site alone has had tens of thousands of hits in relation to…
Official LG Mexico Hacked & Left Defaced
The Official LG Mexico website (https://www.lg.com.mx) has been breached and left with an additional page. The hack comes from @JokerCracker > #LG #Hacked by @jokercracker lg.com.mx/jc.html #RT !! — JokerCracker (@JokerCracker) April 27, 2013 The defacement is not an main index page and contains now real message but it is confirmed as the official mexico…