Access Securepak explains its service as a “program designed to allow family members and friends to send packages to inmates.” On Monday, their parent corporation, Centric Group, notified the California Attorney General’s Office of a breach that may have started back in August 2010 but was only recently discovered. The irony of a company name that…
Category: Breach Incidents
No one’s to blame? I beg to disagree.
Another data theft in the education sector. And yet again, no one did anything wrong because there was never any policy. Yesterday I added a breach to DataLossDB involving the Morgan Road Middle School in Georgia. A flash drive with unencrypted student information, including SSNs, was stolen from an teacher’s unattended car. A gradebook was…
Panasonic Czech Republic and Slovakia Hacked, Defaced & Data Leaked
Turkish Ajan Hacker group member @Maxn3y has contacted us with the first large breach of the year by them. The breach is on another electronic giant this time Panasonic Czech Republic and Slovakia sites have become targets in @Maxn3ys on going spree of hacks which started mid 2011. The attack has left Panasonic websites for both country’s defaced but more for Czech republic with…
University of North Carolina servers hacked; 3,500 employees’ data accessed
It seems that the University of North Carolina has had yet another data breach. And although the breach was discovered in May, it took about 7 months for those affected to be notified. Jane Stancill reports: Some 3,500 people had their personal information exposed when hackers hit two servers of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer…
20,000 Credentials Leaked from Association of Irish Festival Events
A hacker who was recently using the handle @DarkWebGoons has announced a leak of credentials from The Association of Irish Festival Events website (www.aoifeonline.com) after it was breached. The leak was announced on twitter and posted to the DarkWebGoons website in the format of a txt file. > aoifeonline.net #Leaked #100% By #DWG [20k credentials]- darkwebgoons.net/data/associati……
Jefferson County Sheriff Taken offline
Over the past weeks there has been an on going operation in Ohio that has got the attention of police finally. But the attention it has got is the wrong type and now the police, well a single sheriff has taken it upon himself to "hunt down" anonymous and KnightSec. As a result of this some hacktivist got together and…