The London Borough of Greenwich recently signed an undertaking with the Information Commissioner’s Office following two incidents in which unencrypted personal and sensitive information were disclosed due to: (1) failure to encrypt and (2) sending sensitive information by e-mail to external addresses at all . From the undertaking: The Information Commissioner (the ‘Commissioner’) was provided…
Category: Breach Incidents
Hundreds of Bart customer details leaked, sites defaced and new video for OpBart
Recently we have seen anonymous starting to fight for the people of San Fransisco in a fight against BART and its police who have killed people with guns within the subway system in front of the public and on video for the world to see. Last week BART blocked all phone signals within the station…
New team out in force cslsec, Porsche & Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela hacked
A New team of hackers has emerged today making a fairly decent first impression by hacking two big names. The team going by the name cslsec which stands for Can’t stop laughing security, They have hacked one of the worlds most famous car companies and data has been leaked. Porsche.com was the victim in the…
Couple of random sites hacked and databases dumped
Hey everyone, been a busy last 24hrs with lots of smaller sites being hacked and leaked. there is some data base leaks from @CMDL1NE with the normal layout of Database details from breached sites, Also a couple fo datadumps from Exploit shell and a few other random dumps. @CMDL1NE Lactualitechimique.org https://pastebin.com/6A8aiHBp Thecarpenterschurch.org https://pastebin.com/Kj7isjvY Dragonukconnects.com https://pastebin.com/RsLpn4ZY###…
Another Korean data breach – GOMTV.NET reports hacker compromised user information, including passwords
Paul Ducklin reports that Seoul-based streaming media service GOMTV suffered a breach involving usernames and passwords. An email sent to customers on August 14 said: Dear Valued GOMTV.net users: We regretfully inform you that approximately at 2 AM KST, Aug.12th, there has been an attack against our web site, GOMTV.net. We have found that some…
Mibbit IRC Web chats hacked and data leaked
It would seem that the very well know IRC Web service Mibbit has been hacked and had its data leaked online. The leak today has been done "exclusively for all of the skidiots on Mibbit fueling Lulzsec/#antisec" and has been very popular over the social media networks so far. In the release there is a prefix note,…