Sempra Energy (https://www.sempra.com) has been hacked and as a result a fairly big dump of personal information has been leaked onto pastebin. The leak which comes from @isWinker contains personal information such as fullnames, contacts, emails etc. The data which is old comes from 08/09 and is said to be totalling 17 000 even thou the…
Category: Breach Incidents
Zero tolerance for human error? Utah governor fires tech director
Heather May reports that at least one head has rolled in the wake of the Utah Department of Health breach in March: Gov. Gary Herbert apologized to the 780,000 victims of the health data security breach on Tuesday. To restore the public’s trust, he announced Tuesday that he fired Department of Technology Services director Stephen…
California DOJ notifies those affected by a hack of a retired agent’s email accounts
Have I mentioned how valuable it is when states post breach notices online? A reader points me to a new addition to California’s security notices page from the DOJ’s Computer and Technology Crime High-Tech Response Team (C.A.T.C.H.). The incident they are reporting was a hack by those affiliated with Anonymous in 2011: In November 2011,…
Brian Krebs: Global Payments Breach Fueled Prepaid Card Fraud
Brian Krebs has more on the Global Payments breach and how it fueled prepaid card fraud. You can read his report on Krebs on Security.
Peugeot Argentina becomes target to hackers
content/images/gallery/random3/r00t-ur0b0r0x.png Automotive giant Peugeot has become the latest automotive company to be hacked and have websites defaced. The attacks are on the Argentina based websites and all domains appear to belong to the main Argentinian Peugoet website (https://www.peugeot.com.ar/). The defacements which have been uploaded to zone-h by the hacker using the handle UR0B0R0X. sites: https://www.peugeotargentina.com.ar/ ani.html Redirects to main https://www.peugeot.com.ar/ https://www.comunicacionpeugeot.com.ar/ani.html unknown…
Turkey Ministry of Family and Social Policy Hacked and Defaced by RedHack
content/images/gallery/random3/happy-mother-s-gunuunuz-redhack-hacking-for-the-people-red-hackers-hacked-by-red-hack-team.png RedHack has been at it again hacking the turkish government. The latest website to become a target is a subdomain of the Ministry of family and social policy The attack which has left the subdomain (hizmet.aile.gov.tr) with a new look that contains the following message that also has a link to a dataleak. If…