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…
Category: Breach Incidents
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…
Alabama Employee Indicted for Providing Names to a Million Dollar Identity Theft Scheme
A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., returned an indictment charging Lea’Tice Phillips for conspiring to file false tax returns using stolen identities, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. The 37 count indictment charges Phillips with conspiracy to file false claims, wire fraud, computer fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to…
PostNet Hacked, 11,099 Credentials Leaked for #ProjectSunRise
A well known South African photocopying and publishing company PostNet has become a victim to hacking and data leaks after @TeamGhostShell Released its latest Project leak The leak is one of the larger ones out of the total 23 sites that got breached and it a appears the complete database of the website has been leaked including its blogs,…