Mike Rosenberg reports: The Tech, the popular downtown San Jose museum, said Wednesday that a hacker broke into three old files lingering on its system. The thief captured museum members’ names, email addresses, home addresses and phone numbers and posted them to Twitter on Friday before the information was taken down. Museum spokesman Roqua Montez…
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(update) Data breach potentially exposes 250 Clark College students’ information
More on an incident mentioned previously on this blog from Ian Larson in The Oregonian: A cyberattack last week may have exposed the personal information, including the names and student identification numbers, of 250 Clark College students. Nine students’ social security numbers were also briefly exposed in the data breach. The college quickly secured its computer systems…
Washington Post reports breach of job seeker data (updated)
Elinor Mills reports: About 1.27 million user IDs and email addresses belonging to people looking for employment on The Washington Post jobs website were affected by a data breach in June, the newspaper has said. “We discovered that an unauthorised third party attacked our Jobs website and was able to obtain access to certain user…
Out of sight, but not out of court
I’ve been busy recently, backfilling DataLossDB.org. I’m currently working on 2007 (because who wants to tackle 2008 until we have to, right?). In the process, I’ve been reminded of some breaches that most of us probably never paid much attention to or followed up on. As a case in point, consider this entry in my…
Connexion Hack Team dumps military and government email addresses and passwords as well as a California government site’s table of donors
16,959 e-mail accounts have been dumped to MediaFire recently, ZeroPaid has learned. The 1.18MB text file was uploaded by Connexion Hack Team. The file contains government and military e-mail accounts and passwords. ZeroPaid has also learned that many popular e-mail providers are also seen in the list of accounts compromised. Read more on ZeroPaid, who provide a…
Computer-Hacking Group Targets Apple In Latest Attack
Well, by now it may not be their latest attack, as the news report by Ian Sherr was published yesterday in the Wall Street Journal: A group of computer hackers on Sunday posted a document it claimed contains usernames and passwords for an Apple Inc. server, the latest in a string of brazen attacks that have compromised…