Hannah Furness reports: More than 100,000 civil servants and public sector workers have been warned their personal details may have been stolen in a bid to defraud the Government. Members of the Civil Service Sports Club, which has 130,000 members nationwide, have been told their names, addresses, dates of birth and National Insurance numbers have…
Category: Breach Incidents
CA: Cyber Hacker Steals Credit Card Numbers From EJ Phair Customers
Emily Henry reports: Customers of Concord’s EJ Phair Brewing Company may have noticed some unusual charges on their bank statements recently, ranging anywhere from a $700 fee at Staples in Washington state to a couple of bucks at a McDonald’s in Nevada. The cause of those unexplained charges has been discovered as the work of a sophisticated…
Documents + unattended vehicles = yes, again
Karen Dillon reports that mortgage loan documents from Pulaski Bank that included applicants’ tax returns and other sensitive information were stolen from an unattended vehicle in September. The documents had reportedly been stolen from a loan official’s car while it was parked at a gym. This type of breach is certainly not new… I’ve been covering…
Sourcefire laptop with employee data stolen
Sourcefire has had a breach that is probably a bit embarrassing for a company known for security solutions. It seems a company laptop with employees’ Social Security numbers was stolen on November 6, and according to their notification letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, the laptop was (only?) “password-protected.” Their letter didn’t…
Colombian Military websites hacked, accounts leaked
updated: editing for typos. Colombian government is no stranger to cyber attacks with it being one of the many country’s that gets a lot of attention from hackers around the world. The Colombian military has now become a target to a hacker who uses the handle @ur0b0r0x. The leak has been announced on twitter and contains leaked account credentials from five different sub…
Syria Virtual University Hacked, Student Logins leaked
Hacker collective Gsec aka Grey Security has been absent from the scene over the past few weeks only to return with a dump of information from Syria Virtual University (https://www.svuonline.org). The attack has been announced via twitter on the main @gsec_ account with a link to leaked information posted on pastebin. Grey Security @gsec_ Intelligent Student…