When HackRead reported, #OpIsrael: Mossad Website breached, Personal Details of over 30,000 Agents Leaked by Anonymous, my first thought was that I wished they didn’t just uncritically repeat claims. Did they examine the database/spread sheets before repeating tweets and claims? I did a random check of the database, and frankly, I find it extremely unlikely that…
Category: Breach Incidents
Stupidest Lawsuit of the Week: Vernon Township files suit in Social Security numbers breach that they caused; accuses the recipients of violating employee privacy
Jessica Masulli Reyes reports that Vernon Township in New Jersey is suing the recipients of an inadequately redacted email attachment with town employees’ Social Security numbers. They are also reportedly suing the newspaper that published a story about the breach. Riiiiight…. Reyes writes: The lawsuit, filed by Kevin Kelly in state Superior Court in Newton…
Court Favors Bank in Fraud Dispute; Customer Had Declined Dual Authentication
More on the lawsuit and countersuit between Choice Escrow and Land Title and BancorpSouth, mentioned previously on this blog. Tracy Kitten reports: A federal court has sided with a Mississippi bank in a lingering dispute with a customer over financial losses linked to an account takeover incident dating back to March 2010. That means the bank will…
FL probation officer accused of milking records for tax refund fraud scheme
Elaine Silvestrini reports that Corey A. Coley Sr. a probation officer for the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), was arrested Thursday and charged with conspiring to defraud the federal government. Investigators said he worked with at least two other people who filed tax returns claiming more than $1.6 million in fraudulent tax refunds. One…
Two years and one federal clue stick later, Tallahassee Community College finds out they had breach
From the college’s press release today: Tallahassee Community College, on Friday, announced that an unauthorized acquisition of computerized data that may materially compromise the security, confidentiality, or integrity of personal information occurred in March 2011. College officials were recently notified of the breach of security by federal officials. The federal investigation resulted in the conviction…
SPVM Officier Information Data Leak
Notes: It is unknown exactly how this data has been acquired Intro: Last month on the 13th of February it would appear that some anonymous hacktivist had announced a leak of data from the SPVM. More recently this leak has come back into the light under the hash tag #SPVMLeaks on twitter over the past few days. What is SPVM?…