Its that time again, @TeamGhostShell has released another huge dump of information from over 20 different south African and African based websites. The leak is in the name of Project Sun Rise – Heart of Africa and appears to target a lot of petroleum and mining company’s and was announced on twitter last night. > #ProjectSunRise – Africa’s heart: pastebin.com/8fJbajpc 700.000 accounts/records leaked….
Category: Breach Incidents
Antioch district working to fix inadvertent disclosure of employee data
Paul Burgarino reports: District officials have been working to fix an inadvertent disclosure of some personal employee information that spread last week via email. While a former Antioch Unified employee was trying to pass on information about a replacement’s responsibilities at the end of the workday Jan. 18, the employee attached a file to an…
Meacham Tool & Hardware hacked, personal order details leaked
A tool and gun shop that goes by the name Meacham Tool & Hardware Co (https://www.meachamrifles.com/), has been hacked and some of its customer information leaked. The attack appears to of happened around the 25th by hacker @SikNESS_AXiOM who announced it on twitter and posted it to pastebin but it has since been removed. > Meacham…
DhooL.com Hacked, 15,274 Credentials leaked
A popular Indian based music website, Dhool.com has been hacked and had its forum user database leaked. The hacker who uses the handle 3rr0r404 made a post to paste bin with another link to the actual data in html format hosted on anonhtml.com in what appears to be the typical SQL injection tool output. The leak data appears…
NY: Key Bank customers warned of ID thefts
WIVB in upstate NY has a report that hints that while Key Bank is saying that reports of ID theft are not linked to any breach of their systems, they may be the source of the problem: Town of Tonawanda Police are warning Key Bank customers their accounts may have been compromised. Authorities say in…
LA DPPS employee pleads guilty to stealing clients’ info for tax refund fraud scheme
“It’s déjà vu all over again” — noted infosecurity expert Yogi Berra. Veronico Niko, a former Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services employee, has pleaded guilty to stealing names and Social Security numbers for use in a tax refund fraud scheme. Niko, her husband Thomas Marshall, Michael Williams, Mao Niko, and Mike Niko…