Katie Bradford-Crozier reports that two reports into the privacy breach at the Work and Income kiosks cost nearly half a million dollars. Read more on NewstalkZB.
Category: Breach Incidents
IE: Investigation into possible data breach at 02
Irish mobile phone carrier O2 may have had a breach involving customer data. Or not. It seems they’re not really sure what was on a missing backup tape. And I’m not sure I understand why they first told this summer that a tape went missing in September 2011. And of course I’m not sure I…
AU: Macquarie University reportedly hacked
Macquarie University appears to have been hacked. Read the coverage on ZDNet and see a mirror of the defacement and the message.
#OpIsrael Still Attacking, Leaking Data & Taking Down Sites
The last few weeks has been pretty full on for Israel cyber space with hackers from all over the world standing together and fighting the governments for air strikes on Gaza strip which has been killing civilians. The first week or so of the operation was intense with hundreds of sites being hacked and left either defaced or data leaked or just…
Syria Industrial Bank Still Defaced Days After Attack
Early last week Anonymous and other hacktivist had started Operation Syria again in light to the Syrian government blocking Internet access to the outside world. Three days ago a hacker using the twitter handle @AnonHeart404 is apart of sector 404 had defaced the Syrian industrial banks website (http://industrialbank.gov.sy/) and its still defaced a over 72hrs later. The defacement contains a short message for the…
wcites Israel hacked for OpIsrael, 20,000 accounts leaked
Today another Israeli based website has been breached and as a result a load of user accounts has been dumped on anonpaste.me. The site is american owned wcites but its the Israeli version of the site www.wcites.co.li which provides information on local areas around Israel. The attack was posted to ozdc.net by @c0mandEr0r and contains just over 20,000 user accounts with clear…