Caroline Crawford reports: The personal details of almost 2,000 civil servants, including their pps numbers and detail of leave taken, was incorrectly “leaked” in a major data breach, the PSEU conference has heard. The incident which happened in the past week occurred when a spreadsheet containing the personal details of 1,914 civil servants was inadvertently…
Category: Exposure
Fappening Forum Users Hit by Data Breach, Malvertising, and Then by Ransomware
Some might say that there’s almost some poetic justice in this, but Catalin Cimpanu reports: Users of The Fappening Forum, a place where aficionados once converged to share and collect images from the infamous celebrity nude photos leak, have had their personal details leak this week during a data breach. There is no information available…
Lizard Squad claims responsibility Blizzard DDoS attack; employee personal information leaked, games offline
US Blizzard #Offline – WoW #Offline, Diablo 3 #Offline, Starcraft 2 #Offline, Hearthstone #Offline @fbiarelosers @AppleJ4ckxoxo — Lizard Squad (@LizardLands) April 14, 2016 EU Blizzard #Offline – WoW #Offline, Diablo 3 #Offline, Starcraft 2 #Offline, Hearthstone #Offline @fbiarelosers @AppleJ4ckxoxo — Lizard Squad (@LizardLands) April 14, 2016 Atle Williatham reports: … Last night, Blizzard became…
KY: Documents Containing Personal Info Found Outside Payday Loan Business
Thousands of documents containing personal and financial information were found unshredded and scattered behind the Money Now payday loan business on Taylor Boulevard. Boxes of financial records were found by another business owner in the same strip center who began alerting people he had their information. Read more on WAVE3.
Documents containing personal information found in lot
KTRK in Texas reports that Megatel Builders is denying claims about what was in documents found outside a model home: League City police are investigating exactly what was in paperwork left beside a subdivision model home. Neighbors say it contained copies of driver licenses, cancelled checks, and home sale contracts. A builder’s representative said it contained…
American College of Cardiology breach affects 1,400 institutions
Akanksha Jayanthi reports: The American College of Cardiology has notified 1,400 institutions some patient data may have been compromised after the data was inadvertently made available to a third party vendor. During a software redesign of the ACC’s national cardiovascular data registry, a table of patient data was copied into the software test environment sometime…