Via Google translation: The databases of several major websites are stolen by criminals after a Proserve internet server was hacked. In total, data from approximately 800,000 persons have been stolen. These large databases, including Q-Music, Stedin, the Telegraaf Media Groep café, and various online stores such as Pleinshoppen, Internetbikes en Brekelmans Modelbouw. Read more on…
Category: Breach Incidents
The Consumerist resets passwords following breach
The Consumerist seems to have had a security breach. Their blog posts are light on details, though: On July 15, they wrote: As some Consumerist readers have noted, the site has been down twice in the past week and we promised an explanation, which follows. We first took the site down late Wednesday afternoon, when…
Elections Ontario breach update
Two memory sticks with some information on voters registered with Elections Ontario are missing because personnel did not follow protocol. Earliest reports on the breach involving Elections Ontario said that the data were encrypted. Later reports are now saying that the data were NOT encrypted (see official press statement) and that up to 2.4 million may…
CORRECTION
A post that previously appeared here incorrectly indicated that the Utah Dept. of Health had first sent out some notification letters this week. My apologies to the state. The notification letters related to a breach at University of Nebraska that was disclosed in May.
Elections Ontario reveals privacy breach of voter data (updated)
From CBC News: Elections Ontario has discovered a privacy breach that involves the personal information of voters in up to 24 provincial ridings. CBC News has learned that memory sticks containing personal information about voters have gone missing from the office of the chief electoral officer for Ontario. The information on the missing memory sticks…
Turkish Police Informant Files Leaked By Red Hack
@RedHack_EN have announced today what appears to be a fairly big leak of personal information that has come from the Turkish police. The data that has been leaked is Informant Files The leak was announced via twitter and has been uploaded to multipul file sharing sites. RedHack_EN @RedHack_EN Leak: Turkish Police informant files https://www.filefactory.com/file/2zdbz9jvk … orhttps://depositfiles.com/files/dgxtgh7mp @hackers_conf @newsyc20@Cyber_War_News @CBSNews Red hack have also…