Back in June, the Eugene School District 4J in Oregon reported a breach. A teenager who allegedly obtained an employee’s login credentials was subsequently charged. An affidavit submitted to obtain a search warrant of the student’s computer indicated that the teen had admitted to using a brute force program. Apparently, the teen has detained since…
Category: Breach Incidents
CabinCr3w member sentenced to 27 months in prison (updated)
Steven Kreytak reports that a Galveston man was sentenced by a federal judge to 27 months in federal prison for hacking into computers of the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Alabama Department of Public Safety, Houston County, Alabama and the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association. Higinio O. Ochoa III, who pleaded guilty in…
DSW Shoe Warehouse wins dispute with Chartis unit over data theft coverage
Judy Greenwald reports: A federal appellate court ruled Thursday that shoe retailer DSW Shoe Warehouse Inc. was entitled to insurance coverage of more than $6.8 million in stipulated losses and prejudgment interest from a Chartis Inc. unit in connection with a 2005 computer breach. In an incident widely reported at the time, DSW, a subsidiary…
Ca: Memorial University hacked; Faculty of Business student data possibly accessed
Seen at VOCM: Files containing student information at the Faculty of Business at Memorial University may have been accessed by an unauthorized party earlier this week. As a result, all confidential information was secured on a different server, and, as a precaution, websites for the faculty and the Gardiner Centre were taken offline. Files containing…
Jackie Robinson Foundation Hacked, Accounts leaked
A hacker using the handle xL3gi0n has gone and hacked a foundation that has been running since the mid 70’s. The foundation is the Jackie Robinson Foundation (JFR). The leak was posted to pastebin and contains a short message explaining that the leaked data only contains all the emails that start with Aa and that there is many more accounts…
DoktorBass packs up and leaves the anonymous scene
Over the past months we have seen many attacks come from a hacker who was using the handle #DoktorBass and along the way we have seen many different country’s and governments as well as company’s and groups attacks as a result. some of the attacks that have been carried out by this hacker have stirred up fuss with the most recent…