WUSA reports: Maryland’s Department of Information Technology is admitting to exposing the “Personally Identifiable Information” of hundreds of people and companies that do business with the state by accidentally publishing a list of them on a public website. Data exposed included Social Security and Tax ID numbers. Read more on WUSA.
Category: Exposure
ZA: Crystal Web suffers ADSL security breach
MyBroadband reports: Crystal Web suffered a security breach recently, after DSL subscribers’ username and password information was exposed via an online customer portal. Crystal Web CEO Shaun Kaplan said the “old DSL username and password list” was intended for admins and developers to test portal connectivity with. “This list did not contain any identifiable information of…
U.S. Senators calls for federal investigation after News 3 stories on Veterans Administration breach
Adam Schrager has more on how News 3’s investigative reporting has resulted in a response from U.S. Senators: Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) is calling for a federal investigation into how the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs handles the personally identifiable information of America’s veterans. This comes after a News 3 investigation into an instance in April…
AU: Essendon privacy lapse as personal contact information of prominent members is sent via email
Grant Baker reports: The personal contact information of Essendon’s most prominent and powerful supporters has been mistakenly emailed to more than 380 members of the club’s past players and officials association. The privacy lapse occurred when data related to coteries including the Essendon Women’s Network, Essendonians, Collins Street Dons, Red & Blacks, Lawdons and the Dick…
Anonymous starts to reveal KKK members’ details in #OpKKK
Samburaj Das reports: Anonymous has made good on its threat to expose KKK members on the internet to reveal phone numbers and emails of alleged KKK members. Activist collective Anonymous has long had a feud with members of the radical Ku Klux Klan. There is a history there. Recently, Anonymous threatened to dox a thousand members…
Mac-Torrents hacked, user info leaked
HaveIBeenPwned.com reports: In October 2015, the torrent site Mac-Torrents was hacked and almost 94k usernames, email addresses and passwords were leaked. The passwords were hashed with MD5 and no salt. Compromised data: Email addresses, Passwords, Usernames