Manish Singh reports: In the aftermath of a mega security breach of Hacking Team, an Italian company consisting of a group of professional hackers, startling revelations continue to pour in. The latest to hit the shore is a loophole in Google Play’s security checks that allowed a malicious app developed by the Hacking Team to find…
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Anonymous has long history of activism and controversy
Gordon Hoekstra reports; Anonymous, the group that claimed Sunday it had launched an attack on the RCMP for the shooting of a Dawson Creek man, is a loose affiliation of international hackers that originated in 2003. Since then, it has launched dozens of operations, largely over the Internet, that have targeted child porn websites, supported…
Personal info of 700K is public record
Natasha Lindstrom reports: They didn’t mean to do it. Not the scholarship funds, alumni associations or garden clubs. Not the nonprofit hospitals, union groups or corporate foundation arms. Yet more than 130,000 tax-exempt organizations unwittingly leaked hundreds of thousands of Social Security numbers belonging to unsuspecting board members, donors, employees and college students. […] More…
Loan application data held by AFC Kredieten hacked by Rex Mundi, company responds: Meh, not our customers
Jennifer Baker reports: Hacker collective Rex Mundi has stolen 24,000 financial records from Belgian loan company AFC Kredieten, it claims, and if the company doesn’t pay up before Friday at 8pm, it will publish every loan applicant record in its possession. As proof that they have successfully hacked the company, Rex Mundi has already published…
Is a prosecution in Australia linked to the Lauri Love case in the U.S.?
Is a young man’s prosecution in Australia somehow connected to hacking charges filed against Lauri Love in the U.S.? It may be. This is Part 2 of a series, “Three men affiliated with Anonymous Australia facing jail time.” Part 1 described the case of Mathew Hutchison (“Rax”). In this part, DataBreaches.net looks at the prosecution of “Absantos,” whose…
UK public bodies leaked confidential information 150+ times
Jon Martindale writes: … public bodies including the NHS, government departments, police and local councils, have leaked data unsuspectingly over 150 times in the past six years. These statistics were dug up by WhatDoTheyKnow.com, an organisation which helps people make requests of local government and other bodies to find out what information they hold on individuals. Through…