From Code.org’s blog, yesterday: Some volunteer email addresses compromised đ On Friday night we discovered and fixed an error in the Code.org site that allowed access to our volunteer email addresses. This wasnât a case of hackers breaching our security systems, rather it was our mistake of leaving volunteer email addresses accessible via the web…
Category: Exposure
Hackers Claim Breach Of Ku Klux Klan’s Security Company, Staminus (update2)
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: A website run by the Ku Klux Klan has been downed as part of what appears to be a significant breach of its host and security provider Staminus. The company, which promises to protect users from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, was exposed by a crew going by the name of FTA,…
Plaintiffs Use Privacy Pledge Against Insurer in Data Breach Claim
Armeen Mistry and Matthew Siegel of Cozen O’Connor write about a lawsuit over a data breach in 2014 that I don’t remember ever hearing about before.  Whether plaintiffs will be able to show injury is down the road. For now, they survived a motion to dismiss: On February 23, an Illinois federal court denied a motion to dismiss a…
Data Breach Notification: Islamic State Human Resources & Recruiting
Steve Ragan helps out Daesh by creating a data breach notification letter for them to use in the wake of an insider breach that resulted in info on 22,000 Jihadis being in the hands of Sky News (and now governments): Data Breach Notification: Islamic State Human Resources & Recruiting Enjoy.
IS Registration Forms Identify 22,000 Jihadis
Stuart Ramsay reports: Tens of thousands of documents, containing 22,000 names, addresses, telephone numbers and family contacts of Islamic State jihadis, have been obtained by Sky News. Nationals from at least 51 countries, including the UK, had to give up their most personal information as they joined the terror organisation. Only when the 23-question form…
Daesh hackers threaten 55 New Jersey police officers by releasing home addresses, phone numbers and working locations
James Wilkinson reports: ISISÂ hackers have threatened 55 New Jersey police officers by releasing their names, addresses, telephone numbers and working locations online. The Caliphate Cyber Army (CCA), an ISIS-affiliated group of hackers that largely focuses on defacing websites and spreading propaganda, released an Excel spreadsheet containing the details of 55 New Jersey Transit Authority police…