Jared Savage reports: Ten Work and Income staff members have been sacked after two inquiries into breaches of privacy for beneficiaries. The national review of the Ministry of Social Development was launched last December after an investigation into staff at the Manukau branch office. Seven were dismissed for “appalling” breaches of the code of conduct…
Category: Breach Incidents
1,200 Usernames, Passwords Leaked from Yale University
Eduard Kovacs reports: The newly founded hacker collective NullCrew has been very busy in the past few days. After they hacked the systems of ASUS and the ones of a South African ISP directory, they turned their attention to Yale University. From the databases of the educational institution, the hackers obtained the details of around 1,200 students and…
Albert Gonzalez co-conspirator sentenced to 7 years in prison for Dave & Buster’s hack and other crimes
Aleksandr Suvorov, of Estonia, was sentenced yesterday to seven years in prison for his role in two separate hacking schemes involving a total of more than 240,000 stolen credit card numbers. Suvorov, 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sandra J. Feuerstein in Central Islip, N.Y. Suvorov was an accomplice to Albert Gonzalez, one of…
20,000 Clear Text Account Details Leaked From The Himalayan Times By @SirLeakAlot
A hacker using the twitter handle @SirLeakAlot has announced a fairly big leak of accounts in which all the passwords have been stored in clear text. The attack which is on the well known Nepal based website, The Himalayan Times has seen all administration and user accounts leaked from the site via a private paste site posting by @SirLeakAlot….
50,000 Accounts Leaked From ITWallStreet.com by @MidasBank
A member of Team Ghost Shell (@TeamGhostShell) has contacted us with a huge leak of accounts and other personal information that comes from a well known and widely used wall street based website. The site Itwallstreet.com was attacked by a member using the twitter handle @MidasBank aka Masakaki. In the leak comes a short message which…
Skype Source Code Leaked
Over the past few weeks we have been seeing many different high profile names becoming victim to hackers. One of the latest appears to be Skype the well known voice messaging and internet phone system. The attack has seen 3 torrent files being released which include a reversed engineered copy of the skype protocol, the…