The ICO has quietly announced that a London barrister, Richard Dominic Preston, signed an undertaking following the theft of a laptop computer from Mr Preston’s home. The laptop contained documents relating to cases on which Mr Preston had been instructed, together with email correspondence. According to the undertaking, much of the data in the documents on the…
Category: Breach Incidents
Restaurant Depot/Jetro Cash & Carry Customers’ Credit Cards Hacked (update2)
Gawker.com is not one of my usual sources for news on data breaches, but they managed to uncover a breach that we would not have known about had it not appeared on a firearms discussion forum (yes, really): If you used a credit card between the dates of Sept. 21 and Nov. 18th at national…
Millions of online poker players’ data leaked on the Internet
Online gambling sites have had a few mega breaches over the past few years. Now Ultimate Bet Poker (Blanca Games) has joined the unhappy ranks. No one seems to know how or who or when, but a lot of data on 3.5 million players has reportedly been available on the web since November 20. According…
MySQL.com hacked by D35M0ND142
D35M0ND142 has been busy and has pretty much left the admin team of the MySQL.com website pretty embarrassed for not securing its own database’s properly. The attack sorta proves that all areas of IT administration need to re-think security, re-do and re-check everything to make sure that all aspects are all actually up to date and properly secure….
Dump of accounts from Hip Hop Instrumentals
Hip Hop Instrumentals has been hacked and had dump of accounts leaked online by D35M0ND142 . The attack is on the domain https://www.hiphopinstrumental.net/ and contains db information emails and encrypted passwords. https://pastebin.com/MR1Ty3Gr
Yamaha Factory Racing website hacked and user accounts dumped
Yamaha has been hit by hackers on one of their insecure websites. The attack which is on the Yamaha Factory Racing website has been carried out by @_V4ND and contains emails, usernames and passwords. Stupidly enough it would seem that Yamaha was storing all their customers passwords in plain text. Maybe they should get on to their IT team and…