As reported back in October 2011, it was a somewhat unusual ID theft case involving inmates and church volunteers, but now Associated Press reports that the perpetrator has been sentenced to four years in prison: Church members join in worship with inmates as part of the Women at the Well ministry of the United Methodist Church….
Category: Breach Incidents
Telstra privacy breach was ‘one little oops’
Andrew Colley reports: It was “one little oops” that led Telstra to expose over 800,000 customer records on the web last December. That was the way Telstra’s security operations specialist Scott McIntyre described the mystery cause of the massive privacy breach at an IT security event on Wednesday, getting in ahead of a heavily delayed…
AU: Fish, chips, and a side order of card fraud
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.
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…