Ben Keith reports that one of the entities affected by a recent TeamGhostShell hack was Ohio State College of Dentistry. Okay, but here’s the thing: should the college have notified those whose names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and passwords were acquired and dumped on the Internet? You might think “yes,” but Ohio state law…
Category: Breach Incidents
Follow-up: Telstra cops first TCP warning for privacy breach
Josh Taylor reports: The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has issued Telstra a direction to comply with the privacy clause in the Telecommunications Consumer Protection (TCP) code, following a 2011 privacy breach that left the details of 734,000 broadband customers vulnerable. In December last year, Telstra inadvertently exposed customer information online after one of…
OH: Neighbors Worried About Identity Theft After Thousands Of Documents Dumped On Driveway
From 10TV: Residents living in a northeast Columbus neighborhood said that they are concerned after thousands of documents were dumped at the end of a driveway overnight. Residents said that they were worried about identity theft after people’s personal information was found in the pile in the driveway of a GreenStone Homes model home in…
Telecom Giant Orange Hacked, Data leaked by #NullCrew
Null crew have had a quite few weeks after they made headlines for some of the other recent attacks they had done. Today they have released data from an attack on one of France’s largest telecommunication companies, Orange (orange.co.uk). Orange is a French multinationaltelecommunications corporation and represents the flagship brand of the France Telecom group. It is a global provider for mobile phone, landline, Internet, mobile internet, and IP television services,…
200+ Sites attacked by c0delist
Anonymously submitted article: International hacker ‘c0delist’ took down at least 200+ Websites this morning over proposed privacy laws. The alleged hacker ‘c0delist’ has warned Media ‘He will continue to take attacks on these websites". The alleged attacks started from 3:30AM Thursday and Finished 10:30AM Thursday. Following websites such as; sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au regions.qld.gov.au sd.qld.gov.au dtrdi.qld.gov.au science.qld.gov.au createitmakeitliveit.qld.gov smartawards.qld.gov tourism.industry.qld.gov.au workliveplay.qld.gov.au…
Reports of Another Education Department Data Breach
A new feature for student borrowers on the Education Department’s National Student Loan Data System might have revealed personal data about borrowers, mimicking another data breach a year ago. The system, a clearinghouse for borrowers and institutions to get information about student loans, recently added a way for borrowers to download all of their data…