Fahmida Y. Rashid reports: A solo attacker has hacked into an events management company and obtained sensitive information belonging to 20,000 individuals, many of whom were United States government employees or contractors. The cyber-attacker posted an Excel spreadsheet containing log-in credentials and personal information for 20,000 people obtained from allianceforbiz.com, according to a blog post…
Category: Breach Incidents
Society of Manufacturing Engineers reports theft of credit card numbers and personal data
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) appears to have suffered a serious security breach. By letter dated August 16, the Dearborn-Michigan based organization notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that on August 10, there was unauthorized access to their server, resulting in data theft. Individuals’ names, addresses, dates of birth, credit card numbers with…
Epson, HSBC Korea, domain registrar hacked: 100,000 domains affected
Zack Whittaker writes: A series of hacks have hit the South Korean population, in a string of hacking attacks which have caused widespread disruption to the country’s state-run and privately operated firms. South Korean domain registrar Gabia has been hacked, exposing over 100,000 domains and 350,000 users. […] It is thought in some cases, data…
UK: Hays Discloses RBS Pay Deals in Email Gaffe
Mark Kleinman reports: The recruitment specialist Hays is at the centre of an embarrassing gaffe today after one of its employees distributed an email disclosing the remuneration of thousands of contractors working for the state-backed Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). I have learnt that a Hays employee yesterday inadvertently forwarded a message showing the pay…
UAE: Employee arrested for credit card fraud
Matovu Abdallah Twaha reports: An Arab man working for a major electronic company in Dubai was arrested for stealing customers’ credit card information and using it to buy expensive products from the same company. Director of Electronic Investigations at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Maj. Saeed Al Hajiri said they were informed in July about…
2300 email accounts from unknown source
Just another huge dump of accounts from pastebin, dumping ground for leakers and hackers. This dump of emails comes from a unknown source and website, all email passwords are encrypted. https://pastebin.com/V2ZAL94Q