Nathan Toohey and Alina Lobzina report: The Vedomosti newspaper has reported that more than 1 million of mobile provider MTS’ users have had their personal data published on the Zhiltsy.net website. A resident of the town of Ufa, Fedor Ponomarev, alerted the newspaper to the massive data leak. The data originated from 2006 and after…
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Binned PCs were stuffed with MoD and Sun staffers’ privates
Here we go – again. John Leyden reports: Security researchers found personal records of Sun newspaper and MoD staff on the hard drives of discarded or resold computers. The study, The ghosts from the machines: A history of 10 years of carelessly discarded data, found that both businesses and consumers are getting rid of old PCss without…
Swedish password hacking scandal widens
A password hacking scandal which on Tuesday exposed login details of 90,000 Swedes, including several journalists and celebrities, has widened to include 180,000 users on nearly 60 websites. On Tuesday, information about more than 90,000 account passwords associated with the popular Swedish blogging site Bloggtoppen.se, was made public on the Twitter account of former Sweden…
CA: Former employees of bankrupt aluminum plant put at risk when their records left behind for scavengers
Going bankrupt must suck, but screwing your former employees by putting them at risk of ID theft is just not an okay way to handle bankruptcy. J.N. Sbranti reports: It was a filthy job, but 40 workers spent Tuesday picking up papers — including confidential employee records — that had been blowing around an abandoned…
Appeals court decision in Hannaford data breach case could signal new approach
Judy Greenwald reports that at least one lawsuit against Hannford Bros following their 2007 breach is still alive: An appeals court’s decision to permit negligence and contract putative class action litigation to proceed in a grocery store chain data breach because of the alleged damages incurred could signal a change in courts’ approach to this…
CheapTickets.nl database with 715,000 customers’ personal information and 80,000 passport numbers leaky due to “stale” security
The following is via Google’s translation of what Brenno de Winter reported: … leaked CheapTickets.nl a database of 715,000 customers. Attackers did not just names but also tickets and passport numbers. It found a source that reported on condition of anonymity. He discovered that the Windows Server 2003 environment, not all patches were rotated. Because…