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…
Category: Breach Incidents
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…
Sempra Energy Hacked, Personal Information Leaked
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…
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,…