Christopher Seward reports: The Georgia Obstetrical and Gynecological Society said Saturday its offices in Suwanee were burglarized and computers with information on its membership were stolen. It’s not clear to me from the spokesperson’s statement, however, whether they believe that this was a targeted theft related to their lobbying against anti-abortion or bills or for…
Category: Breach Incidents
TRICARE Financial Fraud Claims Don’t Make Sense
Sang of AlertBoot provides some sharp – and skeptical – commentary on the amended complaint alleging fraudulent charges in a lawsuit against the Department of Defense over the TRICARE breach involving SAIC: Many news feeds are covering nextgov.com‘s story that victims of last year’s TRICARE data breach are reporting fraudulent credit card charges and bank transactions. …
Laptop stolen from Kennedy Space Center worker’s car contained personal info on 2,300 (updated)
13News reports that laptop stolen from a Kennedy Space Center employee’s car contained personal information, including Social Security numbers, on 2,300 employees and student co-ops. The laptop theft, which occurred outside the employee’s home, was reported to them on March 5. And no, the laptop was not encrypted. And why, oh why, are laptops with…
Oink Privacy Hole Exposes Everything You’ve Uploaded
Mark Hachman reports: A Pulse employee discovered a security hole in Oink on Friday, which allows anyone to download personal information belonging to another, just by knowing their username. PCMag was able to confirm the breach the same way Cristina Cordova, a former Google employee now working in business development for Pulse, did: by downloading…
Ca: Private info of 4,600 B.C. students leaked
Darcy Wintonyk reports: The leak of private information for thousands of accounting students was the result of an “unfortunate error,” according to the Certified General Accountants Association of B.C. An email sent to 2,300 CGA students on Tuesday accidentally contained an Excel spreadsheet containing personal data of about 4,600 of its students. The spreadsheet included…
Christian Teen Forums Hacked And Accounts Leaked
The hacker who uses the handle Le0n B3lm0nt has been on a mission this week sql injection many exploitable sites, mostly forums and one of the most recent ones is from a Christian Ten forums website. The site, which the name explains all is a forum for christian teens and the leaked data comes in the…