A hacker using the handle i0xIllusi0n has posted a dump of information from the Animal Legal Defense Fund ALDF (https://aldf.org) website today. In what has been a extremely busy month for cyber attacks of all kinds this data leak appears to be the results of yet another website that likes to store personal data and not have secure…
Category: Breach Incidents
100,000 credentials leaked from Fuel Up to Play 60
A hacker using the handle m0le has contacted us with a large leak of data from Fuel Up to Play 60 (https://fueluptoplay60.com/)). > Fuel Up to Play 60 is a program founded by the National Dairy Council and NFL, in collaboration with USDA, that empowers students to take charge in making small, everyday changes at school. Students…
Unity Coalition for Israel Hacked, 12,000 usernames & emails leaked
Anonymous hacktivist have been going all out against Israel and anything it has its name on online. So far there have been hundreds of defaced sites, lots of sites with deleted databases and suffering ddos attacks. Today we have been contacted by a hacker using the handle m0le who has claimed to hack and leak data from the Unity…
Data Breach Class Action against Popular Video Game Developer Dismissed for Failure to Plead Adequate Damages
An update on the Valve/Steam breach… Alan Pate writes: In a ruling this past Wednesday, November 14th, a Federal Judge in the Western District of Washington dismissed a class action against video game developer Valve Corporation. The class action stemmed from a November 6th, 2011 data breach of Valve’s popular online video game distribution platform,…
Breach notification done right? (Nationwide hack, updated)
I spend a lot of time criticizing breach notifications, so it’s nice when I can occasionally point to a positive example. Without considering whether the breach could have been prevented, consider this notification letter from Nationwide Insurance, dated November 16: We want to make you aware that a portion of our computer network was criminally…
Jerusalem College of Engineering hacked by @VenomSec
Hacker collective @VenomSec has dumped a leak of data that comes from the Jerusalem College of Engineering (jerusalemengg.ac.in). The attack was announced on twitter and posted to pastebin. The leak file contains database information as well as a table of 900+ student credentials that contain usernames and encrypted passwords. The breach is not apart of the on…