Every day we see more and more attacks on servers that are purely unsecure and for no other reason besides that they tend to end up in the pastebin archives as account dumps. One of the latest comes from awurval.se and contains emails and cleartext passwords. https://pastebin.com/k2GQC3KS
Category: Breach Incidents
AL: Discarded personal information discovered in Shelby County
A FOX6 News viewer says personal information on hundreds of people was discovered in a trash storage company in Shelby County. Susan Beaty found copies of social security cards, driver’s licenses and even a paycheck stub. They are connected to “Indigo Joe’s” restaurant which is no longer in business. […] Read more on MyFoxAL
Ru: More than 1.6 million Mobile TeleSystems phone subscribers learn their details leaked online
Nathan Toohey and Alina Lobzina report: The Vedomosti newspaper has reported that more than 1 million of mobile provider MTS’ users have had their personal data published on the Zhiltsy.net website. A resident of the town of Ufa, Fedor Ponomarev, alerted the newspaper to the massive data leak. The data originated from 2006 and after…
Binned PCs were stuffed with MoD and Sun staffers’ privates
Here we go – again. John Leyden reports: Security researchers found personal records of Sun newspaper and MoD staff on the hard drives of discarded or resold computers. The study, The ghosts from the machines: A history of 10 years of carelessly discarded data, found that both businesses and consumers are getting rid of old PCss without…
Cycling star Floyd Landis prosecuted in absentia for alleged role in hacking anti-doping lab via malware
John E. Dunn reports: Disgraced former Tour de France cyclist Floyd Landis should be given an 18-month suspended prison sentence for his part in an alleged plot to hack the French national anti-doping laboratory (LNDD) using Trojans, a prosecutor has said. The planting of computer Trojans for the purposes of data theft is usually seen…
Swedish password hacking scandal widens
A password hacking scandal which on Tuesday exposed login details of 90,000 Swedes, including several journalists and celebrities, has widened to include 180,000 users on nearly 60 websites. On Tuesday, information about more than 90,000 account passwords associated with the popular Swedish blogging site Bloggtoppen.se, was made public on the Twitter account of former Sweden…