Is it just me, or have these folks missed the point? From The Tehran Times: A computer specialist, who used to work for a PSP (payment service provider) company which offers a number of Iranian banks services for accepting electronic payments, has hacked accounts of three million bank customers to show the vulnerability of the…
Category: Breach Incidents
BPAS hacker sentenced to jail
James Jeffery, who pleaded guilty to hacking the British Pregnancy Advisory Service in March, has been sentenced to two years and eight months in jail.
Why MilitarySingles.com’s denial of breach fails to convince me (updated)
Some breach reports really bother me. The MilitarySingles.com situation is a case in point. Despite their denial of any breach, what I saw in the two data dumps leaves me with the nagging suspicion that they were hacked. And so I contacted them again almost two weeks ago, following their last statement, to ask to…
Do red flags on credit files really protect us?
Jason Proctor reports: A Burnaby, B.C., man who spent the past year besieged by identity thieves says RCMP have linked his case to a major arrest. Paul Wright says criminals have repeatedly managed to change personal information on his TransUnion Credit Bureau profile. One of the addresses placed on his file was the site of…
Case Western Reserve notifies 600 alumni of data breach involving Social Security numbers
Earlier today, a breach report was submitted to DataLossDB.org involving Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. The April 4th notice, submitted by one of those affected, indicated that 600 people had names and Social Security numbers on two laptops that had been stolen. Although the university is offering affected individuals free identity theft protection services,…
Utah Dept. of Health hacked, over 500,000 700,000 affected and the number’s growing?
Marjorie Cortez provides an update on a breach that started out bad enough last week, and just got a lot worse: Some 280,000 people had their Social Security numbers listed in state health data stolen from a computer server last week, state officials announced Monday, calling the data breach the largest in state history. Another…