Two organisations have taken action after they breached the Data Protection Act by failing to encrypt personal information on laptops that were later stolen, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) breached the Data Protection Act in May 2011 when a laptop – containing sensitive personal data – was…
Category: Breach Incidents
Betfair security chief departs after data breach exposed
Coincidence or not? The director of security at online betting exchange Betfair has left the company just days after an 18-month old data breach at the company was reported in the press. […] It emerged yesterday that Betfair’s security director Sean Catlett is leaving the company to work with start-up company in the US. Betfair…
Extensive report into SK Communications hack
An Australia Security training and research firm has released a very detailed document that examines the recent large scale attack on SK telecommunications. This attack resulted in a large amount of data being phished with lots of personal information, credit cards banking etc. Command Five PTY has done a very extensive look and write up about this attack…
wrestlegame.co.uk Hacked, database and accounts dumped by @ThEhAcKeR12
@ThEhAcKeR12 has just dumped a huge amount of accounts and a database from wrestlegame.co.uk, All accounts that have been dumped are encrypted and database is a 99.k .xlsx file dumped on media fire. All together there is only about 1500+ accounts, so not to many but still shows the lack of security websites have. Accounts: https://pastebin.com/xc7jx54v db: https://www.mediafire.com/?lddbibt3h75nceh just…
US Government contractor hacked and accounts leaked by @ThEhAcKeR12
Well once again a US Government contractor cant secure themselves and have ended up being victim of cyber crime. With the last couple of months or even over the last year or so we have seen a huge rise in public attacks on the worlds governments and America has been at the top of the list…
Venezuela National Statistics Institute hacked by @SwichSmoke
https://twitter.com/ #! / SwichSmoke Our Follow-Follow Twitter Thanks to all the Group SwichSmoke by assembling the head breaks CENSO2011 INE AND -Smoke Swich -Ash3sFr0mH311 -Nova -WTF-Ag0st0 and collaborators thanks INE https://img717.imageshack.us/img717/231/fondodeestritorio021201.jpg CENSUS 2011 IS SAFE? CENSUS 2011, “The Nightmare alienated” Pages: https://www.ine.gob.ve/ https://www.ine.gob.ve/personal/ The National Statistics Institute (INE) is the leading public body Venezuela statistical…