Ah, missed this one as there was no press release to accompany it. An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by Marston Properties. This follows the loss of 37 staff members’ details when the filing cabinet the information was stored in was sent to a recycling centre and crushed. The…
Category: Breach Incidents
Official Australian honda news site hacked
Yet another automotive based website has been hacked and as a result left defaced. The website is owned by Honda Australia and is their news website for all things Honda https://honda.net.au/. The attack comes right in the middle of the current anonymous operation dubbed opaustralia which is fighting purposed security laws within Australia. The attack has nothing…
Blizzard.net hacked
From their official statement: Even when you are in the business of fun, not every week ends up being fun. This week, our security team found an unauthorized and illegal access into our internal network here at Blizzard. We quickly took steps to close off this access and began working with law enforcement and security…
CQ Roll Call and Bloomberg Issue Joint Statement
From their press release: The Economist Group and Bloomberg have discovered that certain former CQ employees now employed by Bloomberg were able to use the log-ins and passwords supplied to them during their employment by CQ to continue to access such information while working for Bloomberg and allowed a small number of other Bloomberg employees…
WI: Former AmericInn employee charged with stealing customers’ info
Vickie Mrotek reports: A 19-year-old Medford man accused of stealing credit card information is now charged with 65 felonies. Investigators say the crimes happened while Nicholas Johnson worked at the AmericInn hotel in Medford late last year. Read more on WSAW.com
Tehran Water Company Hacked again, taken offline by yourikan
A hacker using the handle yourikan has been in contact with us as well as many other media company’s over the past few days in relation to a bunch of Iranian based websites that have been attacked. The attacks have been carried out in the name of the continued fight to stop nuclear power and weapons in Iran with that common message being left across all…