As noted New Year’s Eve, members of the #Anonymous #AntiSec collective welcomed 2012 by dumping data from law enforcement-related organizations on both coasts. I described the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association hack in a previous blog entry. Now let’s turn to the east coast, where the hackers dumped data reportedly from multiple organizations. In their…
Category: Breach Incidents
Saudi Hackers claim to post personal information of 400 thousand Israelis (updated)
Sefi Krupsky and Oded Yaron report: A hacker claiming to be a member of a group of Saudi hackers called Group-XP, hacked into Israel’s leading sports website – One, and posted what he claims is the personal information – including credit card numbers – of hundreds of thousands of Israelis. People who visited One’s website,…
fresh dump of phished accounts
Well it seems so far that 2012 is starting to be a phishing year, with it in the headlines, china working with banks to stop it and lots of other worry going on about phishing we are starting to see a constant flow of compromised accounts. The latest comes from a hacker going by the handle Zero Freak and…
Cn: CIB takes down credit card fraud ring’s leader
Another data leak in China is embedded in this news report in The China Post: The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) yesterday nabbed the leader of a group of credit card criminals in Taoyuan County who profited through cheaply selling off illegally purchased concert tickets. A man surnamed Lin began shopping online with embezzled credit cards in…
More dumped Email Accounts
Well its the holiday season and it would seem that everyone is out to dump email accounts in bulk loads. Well below is just some from the last few days, once again be sure to use CTRL+F for quick search in case your account has been compromised. also always be careful what you download, the websites you use…
Credit Mutuel Units Inspected by French Data Protection Watchdog
Heather Smith reports: Two Credit Mutuel-CIC units were inspected by France’s data protection authority following a data system failure reported on Dec. 28 by weekly newspaper Canard Enchaine, the Paris-based watchdog said today. The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertes searched an information-technology unit in Strasbourg, France, and a newspaper belonging to the bank in…