ONE News in New Zealand reveals a government department has had a series of privacy breaches. Following soon after the breach involving the Ministry of Social Development, reports of inadequate data protection involving the Inland Revenue Department are just what the government doesn’t need. Even worse, the department is getting a black eye in the press for…
Category: Breach Incidents
Choices.edu hacked 8,000+ accounts leaked
A hacker using the handle Sl3nd3r posted a brief dump a few months ago that came from the databases of the Choices.edu server. In that dump was about 1,000 accounts with encrypted passwords and a message that stated more would be coming soon, that paste has since been removed. Today we have discovered that 9 furthers…
Red Cross Thailand Hacked, Defaced, Administration Accounts Leaked
Turkish Agent Hacker Group member Maxney (@maxn3y) has just contacted us with an attack on the Red Cross’s Thailand website and 7 of its domains and database. The attack is redcross.or.th and seven of its subdomains some of which have already been restored. The attack gave Maxney access to 42 databases for the complete red cross Thailand server. Over…
SC: Vincent Sheheen Calls Data Hack News Delay Unacceptable
Is this just for political purposes or do these comments from South Carolina State Senator Vincent Sheheen really reflect his views on the timeliness of notification: “For Governor Haley and her administration to withhold news from us for sixteen days that our personal identity information has been stolen from state computers is completely unacceptable. And…
NZ: Inmates’ details put on Facebook
Shane Cowlishaw reports: A prisoner took a muster sheet containing the details of 52 other inmates out of jail, and posted it on Facebook. Milton prison in South Otago learned of the latest public sector privacy breach last weekend, after discovering the inmate had managed to sneak the sheet out when he was freed. The…
Preview of Upcoming leak from @Officialnull
Well known hacker collective NullCrew (@Officialnull)has contacted us with a preview of a upcoming leak that comes from the United states government. Just a few days ago the NullCrew member @0rbit_g1rl contacted us with a few images and bit of information about the breaches that have been on some state websites. Preview of the leak files: Orbit_girl had…