Phil Muncaster reports: Hacktivist group Anonymous is claiming responsibility for an attack on the computer systems of the Syrian government and its evil overlord Bashar Assad thanks to which over two million emails ended up in the hands of whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks. As of last Thursday, the site began drip-feeding sections of the ‘Syria Files’…
Category: Exposure
Back-Up Supplier Acronis Apologises For Data Leak
Tom Brewster reports: Back-up vendor Acronis has admitted some of its customers’ data leaked onto the Web, as it opens an investigation into what went wrong. Acronis said certain information from its knowledge base was opened up to everyone after the access control settings were reset to default. The back-up supplier said most of the content in…
Dutch employment agency applicant data allegedly leaked following extortion attempt
@quentynblog kindly pointed me to what appears to be yet another extortion attempt that resulted in a data leak when the breached entity wouldn’t pay: From the hackers’ post: Dear friends (and enemies), Last week, we hacked into the Web server of Accord.nl, a Dutch temporary employment company, downloading thousands of job applicant records. We…
University of Florida notifies former law students about privacy breach
This sounds very much like the incident University of North Florida reported last month, but it’s a new/separate announcement from the University of Florida: University of Florida officials are notifying 220 former law school students and applicants who had sought a roommate online in the early 2000s through the Levin College of Law that their Social Security…
Groupon Exposes Customer Emails In Google Results…Again
Ingrid Lunden reports: A while back we wrote about a flaw in Groupon’s email link encryption, which revealed the emails of some Groupon users when “addx” was added into a Google search of Groupon’s site. We’ve been alerted that is still happening, with about 170 emails coming up when we searched (last time around it was less than 80)….
Ca: District of Squamish breach admitted
Rebecca Aldous reports: District of Squamish officials last year accidentally posted bylaw infraction information on the district’s website that should have remained private. The privacy breach happened for approximately a month in January 2011. At the time, the public was able to access mostly unidentifiable bylaw complaint attachments, said Robin Arthurs, the municipality’s general manager…