Oops. A follower on Twitter DM’d me a link to this breach notification from Stay Smart Online, an initiative of the AU government: Notification of Subscriber Data Loss Dear Subscriber We are writing to notify you that the Department has been advised by a former external contractor that a DVD which included information provided by…
Category: Breach Incidents
6GB Emails from Companies world wide leaked after Sykes and trend micro attack by .c0mrade
Last week we covered a story that got laughed at and went pretty much unnoticed by most of the public, trend micro and well known corporation sykes had been hacked and had its data leaked from a mail server by well known hacker, .c0mrade @OfficialComrade Lots of the information security sector has spoken out about…
UK: Welcome Financial Services Limited Fined £150,000 After Backup Tapes With Customer Contact Info Lost
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…
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…