A Scottish council has been fined £140,000 after repeatedly releasing sensitive information about vulnerable children and carers to the wrong people. Midlothian Council was guilty of five data protection breaches in as many months last year. It is the first local authority in Scotland to be fined by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which is…
Category: Breach Incidents
CA: Students busted for hacking computers, changing grades
Iain Thomson reports: Three high school juniors have been arrested after they devised a sophisticated hacking scheme to up their grades and make money selling quiz answers to their classmates. The students are accused of breaking into the janitor’s office of California’s Palos Verdes High School and making a copy of the master key, giving…
Universal Music Portugal hacked and accounts leaked
It would seem that some one, unknown to us as we have searched and searched and can not confirm this or who they are, but they have claimed to of hacked Universal Music Portugal and dumped a load of accounts on to pastebin as well. When checking the Portugal website it is currently down showing…
BMW Motorcycle Owners of America Hacked And thousands of Accounts Leaked By xdev @b4lc4nh4ck
xdev who is part of @b4lc4nh4ck has hacked and dumped a few a heap of accounts from a bmwmoa.org, BMW Motorcycle Owners of America forums. The leak contains 2000+ accounts with this just being a small part of the full 43000 from the vBulletin based forums. the leaked data is in the format of username, emails and paswords which are encrypted. www.bmwmoa.org…
Brno Airport Web Site hacked and Data leaked by @anon_4freedom
SEPO aka @anon_4freedom has been on a mission the past few weeks and now has hacked and dumped a load of data from an airport website. the airport is BRNO Airport and the data contains database information and 100 or so administration accounts, stats: https://elerts.cyberwarnews.net/dumps.php?dump=255 leak: https://virtualsepo.blogspot.com/2012/01/brno-airport-web-site-hacked-by-sepo.html
Suzuki Deutschland Hacked and Data leaked by @anon_4freedom
SEPO aka @anon_4freedom has continued to hack websites and leak data and keeping in fashion they are still targeting higher profile websites such as one of the most recent attacks. This attack is on one of the worlds largest car and bike manufacturers, Suzuki and is aimed at the Deutschland website. The leak contains database information and…