Grant Baker reports: The personal contact information of Essendon’s most prominent and powerful supporters has been mistakenly emailed to more than 380 members of the club’s past players and officials association. The privacy lapse occurred when data related to coteries including the Essendon Women’s Network, Essendonians, Collins Street Dons, Red & Blacks, Lawdons and the Dick…
Category: Exposure
Anonymous starts to reveal KKK members’ details in #OpKKK
Samburaj Das reports: Anonymous has made good on its threat to expose KKK members on the internet to reveal phone numbers and emails of alleged KKK members. Activist collective Anonymous has long had a feud with members of the radical Ku Klux Klan. There is a history there. Recently, Anonymous threatened to dox a thousand members…
Mac-Torrents hacked, user info leaked
HaveIBeenPwned.com reports: In October 2015, the torrent site Mac-Torrents was hacked and almost 94k usernames, email addresses and passwords were leaked. The passwords were hashed with MD5 and no salt. Compromised data: Email addresses, Passwords, Usernames
Data, data everywhere…
Yesterday, and as previously noted on this site, 173,891 breached accounts from PHP Freaks forum were dumped. Last night, @Cyber_War_News tweeted that approximately 1 million accounts from the 000webhosting hack had shown up on the dark web. It’s a reasonable bet that the 12+million other accounts will also show up. This morning, @haveibeenpwned tweeted that 620,677 accounts…
Wisconsin senators want answers from the VA about repeated breaches
Earlier today, I posted an item and commentary about a breach affecting veterans in Wisconsin. Adam Schrager’s report indicated that there were recurring problems and that the VA knew about these problems but has not addressed them to prevent recurrences. One of the problems involves the VA’s software not flagging SSN that are unhyphenated for mandatory encryption. The VA…
Aussie Farmers Direct hacked, user details posted online
Allie Coyne reports: Home delivered groceries business Aussie Farmers Direct has fallen victim to an attack on its systems which has seen the personal details of more than 5000 of its customers posted online. Attackers today posted the names, phone numbers, email addresses and physical addresses for 5149 of Aussie Farmers Direct’s customers. Read more…