A Minnesota resident, Jeffrey Ness, has filed a potential class action lawsuit against the state’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Department of Public Safety after a DNR employee exceeded authorized access and accessed about 5,000 residents’ driver’s license information. The employee was terminated but the motive for the improper access was not disclosed. In the lawsuit filed…
Category: Breach Incidents
Rex Mundi attempts to get Buy Way to pay EUR 20,000 to prevent data leak
A hacker using the handle Rex Mundi @RexMundi_Anon has been making headlines over the past months with attacks on high profile company’s One thing that has been common for Al these attacks is the fact Rex mundi demands large amounts of money to prevent the data being leaked and gives company’s anywhere between 7-21 days notice. Some of the recent…
britam defence hacked, confidential documents leaked, site offline
Update: Full report here A British defence company has been breached and as a result a heap of documents have been published online and now the site has gone offline. The attack is on britam defence (https://www.britamdefence.com/) and has been claimed by a hacker using the handle JAsIrX who uploaded the leaked information to various file sharing websites and released it via…
E-number spreadsheet with Eastern Illinois University student data leaked
Chacour Koop reports: The grade point averages of 430 students were released to 65 students about two and a half weeks ago, which is a violation of the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Robert Miller, Eastern’s general counsel, has refused to comment on the violations. Sue Harvey, Eastern’s registrar and FERPA officer, has…
Sony fined £250,000 after millions of UK gamers’ details compromised in 2011 Playstation hack
It was one of the biggest hacks of 2011 from a media standpoint, and at least some of those involved were subsequently arrested. But Sony’s woes from the hack are not over and it has now been hit with the biggest monetary penalty ever issued by the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office for a data breach….
53,303 User Credentials Leaked from ezycoupons
A new Zealand based coupon website has been breached and as a result 53,303 Client details are now released to the public The site is ezycoupons.co.nz and it appears to be part of a chain of similar sites which offer deals and vouchers from New Zealand based company’s and business. The leak was announced by hacker @nrtnz who appears to…