There’s an update to uKnowKids’ breach disclosure, here. They assert that their analysis shows only one IP address – presumably researcher Chris Vickery’s – downloaded any data from their misconfigured database. They do not name the provider responsible for security the database. According to their statement, the misconfigured instance of the database occurred on December…
Category: Exposure
Anonymous: Turkish government cracks down on Twitter ‘hacktivists’ over leak of police data
Jason Murdock reports: The Turkish government has retaliated against a number of Twitter profiles that posted links to a compromised database stolen from a national police server. The users, which includes two Anonymous-affiliated accounts, sent out notifications to millions of followers containing a direct link to a huge 17.8GB-sized trove of sensitive data earlier this month. One…
Where does your local govt store old records?
Seen on reddit, posted by “hiimquinten:” Okay, guys. This is my first time here so sorry if somethings not right about this post. But I have no idea where to go about addressing this. My friends and I went ghost hunting in an abandoned school in our town tonight. It was the typical very old…
UK: Alert auctioneer stops data of 7,000 patients in west Norfolk being sold to highest bidder after blunder at Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Thank goodness for alert auctioneers. Sophie Biddle reports: A health chief at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in King’s Lynn, has announced a full internal investigation is underway after a piece of medical equipment containing personal data slipped through the first stage of their disposal process. The potential for the information to be leaked was however…
Three associated with “Anonymous” on trial in Paris for hacking police union
There’s a follow-up on a hacking case in France that I didn’t report on at the time. Oh well…. thankfully, Catalin Cimpanu has the details: Three hackers who were associated with the Anonymous movement are on trial in Paris, France, after hacking a French police union’s website and dumping the data of 541 police officers…
MI: Resident discovers sensitive personal documents in Wyandotte Recycling Center bin
Jim Kasuba reports: It’s common knowledge that documents with personal information should be destroyed after no longer needed in order to lessen chances of identity theft. In most cases they’re put through a shredder. That wasn’t the case recently when a man using the Wyandotte Recycling Center, 1170 Grove, came upon documents that raised all…