Ouch. Information Age reports: A data breach at Dumfries and Galloway Council was reported just hours after the council announced a new data protection policy. The Scottish local council announced yesterday that it had approved a new data protection policy, having suffered two significant data breaches last year. In one incident, salary information about 9,000…
Category: Breach Incidents
Should we send in CSI to figure out the source of a data dump?
Here’s a great example of the perils in trying to report on hacks or breaches disclosed on Twitter or Pastebin. A hacker who self-identified as Reckz0r initially claimed to have hacked Visa and MasterCard and to have dumped 50GB worth of data (without credit card numbers). I had my doubts, and wasn’t surprised to read…
LinkedIn sued over inadequate security
It was, of course, only a matter of time. VentureBeat reports that LinkedIn has been sued over the security breach that affected 6.5 million passwords. You can read the complaint on VentureBeat. The lawsuit claims that the firm’s policy promised “industry standard protocols” to protect the data, and that hashed passwords just don’t live up…
NY: Head of youth program fired over discarded sensitive documents
News12 reports on an incident in the Bronx: The head of a summer youth program in West Farms is out of a job after sensitive and personal information was found dumped out on the sidewalk. The discarded files were left in plain sight, piled in a Dumpster across from the Phipps Community Development Center. The…
Federal Accounts Leaked As Preview for upcoming leak by @le4ky
EX-UGNAZI member @le4ky or CyberZeist has announce that he has leaked a list of FBI accounts as part of an upcoming leak. CyberZeist @le4ky 250+ Federal Accounts Leaked – https://pastebin.com/yhF596Fn #SneakPeak of a forthcoming mass #gov leak! The leak was uploaded to pastebin and has also been mirrored on leakster.net contains the below message which says that there is more to…
17 Hungarian websites hacked and defaced for #opblitzkrieg
opblitzkrieg has been going for some time now, its an operation that is attempting to expose and attack all the nazi based sites across the internet. today they have releaed a file with 17sites in it that have been hacked and left defaced. List of sites that have been defaced are all Hungarian and all sport the same defacement,. https://hunterss.uw.hu…