A Spanish language based social network style provider Pympy.com has been hacked and over 50,000 accounts have been leaked The attack was announce by hacker @AnonVoldemort on twitter just a short time ago. > Pympy Resources for social networks, forums, Hi5, Facebook, Myspace, twitter +70.000 Users DATA-DUMP @cyber_war_news goo.gl/hEcl9 — Voldem0rt (@AnonVoldemort) February 1, 2013 The leaked…
Category: Breach Incidents
Insurance company need not defend accountant who lost sensitive client information
Having homeowner’s insurance is a good idea, but don’t count on it to protect you if your clients’ data is stolen from your property. Stephen E Wieker and Liisa M. Thomas and Winston & Strawn LLP write: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh recently ruled that Nationwide Insurance Co. has no duty to defend or…
Leader of Florida ID theft ring convicted
Back in June 2012, the Department of Justice announced that Alci Bonannee had been arrested and charged with ID theft in a massive tax refund fraud scheme. At the time, they found evidence that over 1,000 fraudulent returns had been filed by Bonannee and her co-conspirators between January 2011 and June 6, 2012. This week, Bonannee was…
NZ: 543 ACC privacy breaches since last year
Now what were folks saying about human error being the single biggest cause of breaches? And did anyone say how much human error was “acceptable” or to be expected? When does the public say, “This is too much?” Brook Sabin reports: The ACC [Accident Compensation Corporation] is still breaching people’s privacy at an average rate…
Break Down and Insight into Project Sun Rise African data leak
The following is a deeper insight to all the information and leaked data from Project Sun Rise by Team Ghost Shell. On the 28th of January 2013 @TeamGhostshell announced another large leak of information from a heap of websites in the latest project by the hacker collective. Information The attack has a main release note…
Database leaked from Network of Chamber of Commerce
A few days ago i did a report on the French Network of Chamber of Commerce website being hacked and left defaced. Since then the same hacker @TN_cyberarmy. has announced a data leak from the website. > @zataz cci.fr #data leak by #tunisiancyberarmy pastebin.com/gA07DYE3 @cyber_war_news @pentester_1996 @hackread @ehackernews #opmali — TunisianCyberArmy1(@TN_cyberarmy) January 29, 2013 The data leak…