Karen Seidman reports: McGill University has succeeded – for now – in shutting down a website that had exposed confidential and personal information about McGill donors, embarrassing the university and raising questions about the security of private information. The information included how much donors had given in the past and how much they were being…
Category: Breach Incidents
Twitter yanks @LindenLeaks account, but some damage was already done
Russell Korando reports on a university data breach that demonstrates why universities need to nail down security and access to education records: LindenLeaks is no longer posting information about Lindenwood University or its students on Twitter. Sometime early Wednesday, the Twitter account stopped publishing. Lindenwood officials, St. Charles police and the St. Charles County Cyber…
Panda Security Hacked, Defaced by #Anonymous
content/images/gallery/antisec12/panda-pwned-lulz-security-lives-pastebin-com_.png Anonymous hackers had pasted a new leak of information that comes from Panda security and within this leak is a bit of a message about the recent confirmation that one of the lulzSec members turned out to be a information or snitch for the authorities. The hack has left heaps of panda’s subdomains hacked…
Turkish Police station hacked and Accounts leaked
We have discovered a pastebin paste that claims to be data from a Turkish based police station https://egm.gov.tr. The leak comes from pastebin account named EROFOLIO and contains a dump of a couple hundred accounts with emails, usernames, ids and encrypted passwords. **Authenticity** Valid 878 Duplicate’s 1 Already Stored 0 **Top 4 Provider Result’s** Hotmails 0…
Philippines Road Board Accounts Leaked By Lulzr00t
Luzr00t keeps gaining speed, with their numbers of hacks growing rapidly; this new group may become a serious threat to anyone in their way in the long run. Moments ago Lulzr00t hacker Apach3Z leaked 38 accounts linked to the Road Board of the Philippines website. Including the root, and SQL Administrator accounts. The leak…
Ca: UBC computer with sensitive data recovered
Encryption worked, but what was the laptop doing in an unattended vehicle anyway? CBC News reports: The University of B.C. is reviewing its security procedures after the theft of a laptop containing personal information on thousands of students and faculty members. RCMP retrieved the computer last month, 10 days after it was stolen from a…