Recently Camden New Journal, found a exploitable part of the Camden council website that allowed them to download licensing information from the councils servers. The information is said to of contained enough data for people to start identity fraud and cause real trouble for anyone who’s information was leaked. The breach has started up a probe…
Category: Breach Incidents
Australian Telcom Giant, Telstra investigated over data breach
TELSTRA faces the wrath of the Federal Privacy Commissioner after leaving customer details of potentially millions of customers exposed on the web including, reportedly, usernames and passwords. The details were exposed in a search page used by Telstra customer service agents that was left unprotected and openly accessible on the web. The page entitled "Telstra…
PA: Hackers Steal Washington Co. Customers’ Credit Card Info
The Secret Service is investigating after several customers of a Washington County restaurant had their credit card information stolen by hackers from overseas. Beginning Dec. 4, Jumpers Junction customers began reporting their credit card information as being stolen. Investigators said each person had recently paid for their food with a credit card at the restaurant….
Huge amount of email accounts from past 24hrs
From what appears to be some sort of phishing results or key logger results has resulted in thousands of accounts again being leaked on to pastebin. The accounts come from various places and all contain clear text passwords and comes in two parts. Be sure to check with CTRL+F for quick search in case you was silly enough to get…
AU: Railcorp blunder as personal details offered in rail sale (updated)
Finders, keepers? Can you just auction off lost USB drives left on trains without regard to whether they contain sensitive information? Maureen Shelley reports: A bunch of USB memory sticks, which hold private photos and data, left by passengers on Sydney trains were sold by Railcorp at a lost property auction. Computer security company Sophos,…
Telstra internal website made public, releasing account details of up to one million customers
Michelle Ainsworth reports: Account details of up to one million Telstra customers have possibly been breached after an internal website was made public. The website listed Telstra customers on bundle plans and included their names, plan types, contact they had had with Telstra customer service and in some instances their account passwords, the Herald Sun…