Estonian Public Broadcasting reports: The Tallinn database management company Andmevara was fined 3,000 euros by the Data Protection Inspectorate for the potential leak of 126,379 people’s personal data in February. Capital residents who had applied for land tax exemption had their names, ID numbers, living addresses, property sizes and the amount of the tax exception…
Category: Breach Incidents
Update on Acer India Hack & Data Leak
Early today i reported that acer India has been breached and that a dump of information had been released by Maxney. Since then i have now had a chance to check this 41mb compressed rar file and see if it does hold the said 20,000 accounts. To get right to the point the leaked data does in fact contain well over…
Anonymous Operation BBC #OpBBC
Currently the anonymous hacktivist from around the world have many different operations on going, one of these is OpBBC which is being aimed right at British media giant BBC (British broadcasting corporation). Currently the operation has been put to a halt due to the on going troubles in Israel but last week hacker collective @UGBrazil released…
Help track the Advanced Data Processing – Intermedix breach
Regular readers know how I hate it when companies are not sufficiently transparent about breaches, – where “sufficiently” is defined by MY standards and not just what the law may require. So when Epsilon didn’t provide a list of affected clients, this blog compiled our own list with the help of readers and affected consumers. And…
#OpSyria What is it and Why is it being done
Over the past few days anonymous hacktivist have been focusing on Syria a lot after the government thought it would be a good idea to prevent any outside communications by disabling the Internet. Well that failed and anonymous hacktivist working along side telecomix have helped keep Syria online with a constant stream of news coming out. The attacks were started on…
GetOnDown.com Hacked, Thousands of Personal details and credit cards leaked
Anonymous hacktivist have taken sights to a music news, information site that pushes for music not to be free online. The attack has been announced on twitter and the target is GetOndown (getondown.com). We are a collective of music nerds, audiophiles, archivists, old hip hop heads, and creative types who are working toward the common…