Ben Grubb reports that the number of data breaches in Australia is at least double what is reported to the government because there is no mandatory breach notification law. And not surprisingly, many of the breached entities are small businesses. Read more on Sydney Morning Herald.
Category: Breach Incidents
Government of Anguilla Hacked By #UGNazi
In whats been a busy week for hackers attacking all different governments has claimed yet another one. This times its the Government of Anguilla website and the attacks have been carried out by @UG and dumped on pastebin.com The leaked data contains server/network information for www.gov.ai and contains just over 100 user and administration accounts all of…
3178 Accounts leaked from djartsgames.ca
A Canadian based games website djartsgames.ca has fallen to hackers who have leaked its users database on to pastebin. The leaked data comes from djartsgames.ca contains 3178 emails/password combos, some of which are administration accounts and others are just user accounts. djartsgames.ca was started in 2008 as a base for facebook games so no doubt a lot…
UK council fined £70,000 following theft of highly sensitive data from employee’s home (updated with response from Council)
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The London Borough of Barnet has been issued with a penalty of £70,000 for losing paper records containing highly sensitive and confidential information, including the names, addresses, dates of birth and details of the sexual activities of 15 vulnerable children or young people. The loss occurred when a social worker took the paper records…
Arizona State Legislature Hacked, Data Leaked by @MalSec
@MalSec has hacked the website of Arizona State Legislature (https://azleg.gov/) and as a result a dump of data has been leaked via a mozilla pastebin paste. content/images/gallery/antisec12/twitter-malsec-https-t-co-dsl25x5g-dump.png The leaked data appears to be minor transactions records from the database stored on the sites server. Surely one would think that the american government would be starting to…
Panpacific University North Philippines Hacked, Accounts Leaked
A North Philippines University has been hacked and had a dump of accounts leaked online by two hackers using the handles "Harsha Vardhan Boppana and codie root". The leaked information comes from Panpacific University(https://www.punp.edu.ph/) and has been dumped in three parts. The first part that was dumped contains the injected url along with two other pastes that…