BBC reports: A data protection breach by holiday company Thomson revealed the home addresses, telephone numbers and flight dates of nearly 500 customers. An email seen by the BBC shows the personal details of 458 people from across the UK were shared on 15 August. […] A statement from the company said: “We are aware…
Category: Exposure
Ashley Madison Hackers Speak Out: ‘Nobody Was Watching’
Joseph Cox of Motherboard got the exclusive interview of the week – with Impact Team, the hackers behind the AshleyMadison.com hack. Here’s a snippet of the email interview: MOTHERBOARD: How did you hack Avid Life Media? Was it hard? The Impact Team: We worked hard to make fully undetectable attack, then got in and found nothing…
How is this type of breach still happening in the Veterans Administration system?
I thought the Veterans Administration system had taken steps to ensure that people could not forward/send emails with protected health information outside the system. Yet an incident in Texas that was included in the VA’s July report to Congress shows that this still occurs. The VA’s summary of the incident for July 23rd notes: As…
Second Ashley Madison data dump, bigger than the first, lays bare their source code
As if it couldn’t get any worse for Avid Life Media, a second data dump has been released on the dark web. This one appears to contain all of CEO Noel Biderman’s emails and the source code for their web sites. As Trusted Sec notes on their blog: if this turns out to be legitimate…
OH: Resort owner sues former Put-in-Bay police officer
Craig Shoup reports: A businessman has filed a defamation suit alleging a former Put-in-Bay police officer disclosed details on the Internet of a sealed criminal case. Attorney Mark Petroff, of Elyria, filed a lawsuit in the Lorain County Common Pleas Court on behalf of Put-in-Bay resort owner Mark Mathys, claiming former village police officer Steve…
NZ Privacy Commissioner warns that republishing AshleyMadison data may violate NZ law
Radio New Zealand reports: Material is emerging on the internet which lists personal data, including thousands of email addresses which appear to belong to New Zealanders. Customer data from the dating site for married people who want to cheat on their spouse was reportedly leaked on the “dark web”, meaning it is accessible only via…