Kyle Constable reports: The University of Connecticut’s website was compromised Sunday, prompting visitors to download a malicious program posing as Adobe Flash Player, according to a university spokesman. […] The university website’s DNS records – Internet protocols that associate the URL “uconn.edu” with the website’s server and content – were compromised around 11 a.m., Breen…
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79 escort sites hacked in past week: ElSurveillance
I’ll admit I sometimes ignore data dumps or hacks if they don’t fit my particular interests in reporting on breaches that impact health data or student data. But occasionally I remind myself that all breaches that expose personal information do need to be taken seriously. Yes, even those, as with the Ashley Madison hack, where some people may feel, “Well,…
Security Breach At Quincy Credit Union Investigated
Jim Smith reports: Authorities continue to investigate a security breach at the Quincy Credit Union, a breach that gave hackers access to hundreds of accounts. It was a busy day at the credit union on Monday as customers came in to get their accounts checked, and in some cases, get new ATM and debit cards. WBZ found…
Anonymous Hacks Asia Pacific Telecommunity to Protest Against Censorship In Asia
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Members of the Anonymous hacker collective have defaced the Asia Pacific Telecommunity website (apt.int), gained access to the site’s admin panel (running Drupal), and also managed to get their hands on a database dump. Cyberguerilla.org reported the attack yesterday and provided screen shots and a link to the data that appears to contain information on…
Massive breach affecting children’s info worldwide!
Re-posted with the permission of one of the breach notification recipients. 🙂 The following data breach notification has come into our possession. Matt Blaze Andrea Matwyshyn —————- December 25, 2015 Dear current or former child: Our North Pole Operations Center was recently the target of a malicious cyber intrusion, which resulted in the theft of…
Costa Rica Government Website Hacked by Pro-ISIS Group
Jaime Lopez reports: An internal page within the website of the Ministry of the Environment in Costa Rica (Spanish acronym: MINAE) were hacked by an Egyptian group claiming allegiance to the Cyber Caliphate, an extremist branch of ISIS. There’s much more, but one somewhat surprising note: It is interesting to note that the hackers who claimed…