From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Organisations are learning the hard way of the consequences of mishandling people’s information – and others need to heed the lessons the Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, warned today at the launch of the ICO’s 2011/12 annual report. The Commissioner’s comments came as the ICO imposed a civil monetary penalty (CMP) of…
Category: Breach Incidents
Update: Federal appeals court raps U.S. bank over shoddy online security
Jeremy Kirk reports the latest twist in a long-running lawsuit by a construction firm against its bank over fraudulent wire transfers: A U.S. construction company may stand a greater chance of recovering some of the $345,000 it lost in fraudulent wire transfers that it blames on poor online banking practices of its bank. Patco…
300,000 Personal Details Leaked, 38 Sites Hacked For #ProjectDragonFly
@TeamGhostShell (TGS) leader, @deadmellox has just tipped us off to another huge leak that is on the same scale as the last chinese leak from TGS. The most recent attack is mainly on Taiwan based websites with some other sites being attacked to. The leak contains a fairly detailed message as well as links to individual pastes that contain…
Oak Creek Ranch School Hacked, Defaced For #OpLiberation by Anonymous
Operation Liberation (#Opliberation) has been going for some time now, exposing boarding schools that treat children badly, to say the least. Over the time there has been a fair few hits from many different hackers and teams in the name of this operation and one of the latest is the well known player Oak Creek Ranch School https://ocrs.com/. The schools website…
BC Hydro asks customers to check bills after online security breach
Michael Mui reports: BC Hydro is asking its online credit-card customers to check their bills after a security breach was detected last week. Corporation spokeswoman Jennifer Young said the breach — which involved credit card information not being properly encrypted — has been corrected, but urges those who paid online with a credit card in…
Dutch employment agency applicant data allegedly leaked following extortion attempt
@quentynblog kindly pointed me to what appears to be yet another extortion attempt that resulted in a data leak when the breached entity wouldn’t pay: From the hackers’ post: Dear friends (and enemies), Last week, we hacked into the Web server of Accord.nl, a Dutch temporary employment company, downloading thousands of job applicant records. We…