In the wake of its massive data breach, Utah health officials are doing something I don’t recall ever seeing before – they’re taking breach support on the road to reach out to those affected. Kirsten Stewart reports: Health officials are touring the state, looking to provide one-on-one help to the nearly 800,000 Utahns swept up…
Category: Breach Incidents
UK: Inquiry after pupil details stolen during raid on house
Roby Reynolds reports: Education chiefs have ordered an investigation after dozens of pupils’ files were stolen from a school worker’s home. Documents containing personal information of 45 children were taken during a break-in at the home of a member of staff from the education welfare service at Edinburgh City Council. The woman had been working…
CA: Personal information on hundreds found during traffic stop
Every time I see one of these stories about how a cache of stolen information was found during a routine traffic stop, I wonder whether the entity or entities had even known that their data had been stolen. Santa Ana man faces identity theft and other charges after deputies found drugs and a flash drive…
Womens Land Link Africa Hacked, 50,000 Accounts Leaked By #DoktorBass
AnonymousAustralia Hacktivist #DoktorBass has just released a big load of accounts from the Women’s Land Link Africa website. From a initial go over there appears to be over 50,000 emails and passwords many of which appear to also be duplicates. The website that was attacked is https://wllaweb.org/ and The WLLA has been established by dedicated organizations already working at various…
UK: ISP Netcom Hacked, Data Leaked after refused help by #NullCrew
Over the past days hacker group #NullCrew have been leaking dump after dump from many different sites. It appears while this was going on they had also accessed a English based ISP, netcom. As a result of this attack they claim they have contacted netcom about the breach and as a result they were simply told to…
Maplesoft Affected by Security Breach
Seen on Maplesoft’s web site: Maplesoft is investigating a security breach of its administrative database that took place on July 17th, 2012. As a result of the breach, the perpetrators gained access to some email subscription data, including email addresses, first and last names, and company and institution names. Any financial information held by Maplesoft remains…