Joe Gould reports: In the wake of the biggest dump of classified information in the history of the Army, the brass is searching for ways to watch what every soldier is doing on his or her Army computer. The Army wants to look at keystrokes, downloads and Web searches on computers that soldiers use. […]…
Category: Breach Incidents
TeamPoison still active, attacks governments and corporations
TeamPoison has been busy, it seems, despite the arrest of one of their members. In a tweet on May 3, the group announced they had hacked the government of Australia: Australian Goverment Owned by TeaMp0isoN : Listen to your citizens : pastebay.net/818484 #TeaMp0isoN — TeaMp0isoN (@TeaMp0isoN__) May 3, 2012 In a statement preceding the data, the…
Ie: Security fears for prison staff after details found in cell
Occasionally I’ve noted breaches that leave people concerned for their physical safety. A breach involving Islington Council reported at the end of last month falls into that group, as did an earlier breach involving the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia. Now Cormac O’Keeffe reports on one from Ireland: Prison officers held an emergency meeting with…
UK: Kingston Council faces privacy breach claim
Nazia Dewji reports that a mailing error by Kingston Council resulted in 100 rent statements being sent out with the first page belonging to one tenant’s account and the second page belonging to a different person: The data included details of housing benefits entitlements and other benefits, the name of the bank each tenant used,…
Atlanta Student Suspended for Breach of School Database
Jeff Goldman reports: A 19-year-old student at Atlanta’s Booker T. Washington High School was recently suspended for seven days for stealing his father’s user name and password in order to change 18 fellow students’ attendance and course assignment records in exchange for money — the student’s father is a counselor at the school. The students…
Four Irish, British suspects helped Stratfor hack: U.S.
I updated specific incident reports on DataLossDB.org yesterday, but thought I should mention this here, too. Basil Katz of Reuters reports: Federal prosecutors said four Irish and British men charged in a crackdown on the international hacking group Anonymous also helped breach the security analysis company Stratfor last year. In an indictment made public on…