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…
Category: Breach Incidents
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…
Univ. of Tampa notifies over 30,000 students and staff that their Social Security numbers were exposed on the Internet
The University of Tampa has issued a breach notice: On March 13, 2012, the Office of Information Technology (IT) learned that due to a server management error, a University of Tampa data file containing sensitive information was publicly accessible for a certain period of time. There is no evidence the file has been used maliciously….
34 more india sites hacked and defaced by Bangladesh Cyber Army
content/images/gallery/random3/capture_6.png Bangladesh Cyber Army have posted another list of sites from India that have been defaced with strong demands and graphical images that are related to the on going border wars and other wars they are having each and every day. In the past we have seen thousands of sites so far that have been defaced but these…
14 Arrested as part of a alleged £1m Phishing scam
zdnet.co.uk has reported that 14 people, 12 men and 2 women have been arrested for a phishing scam that has targeted just 1 women who was silly enough to give out personal details that allowed them to allegedly take over £1m. The arrests have taken place across England by the 3 major cyber crime units and there is reports that there…