Michael Flaherty and Emily Stephenson of Reuters report: The chairman of a U.S. congressional committee on Thursday subpoenaed Federal Reserve documents and communications related to a 2012 leak of monetary policy information, ramping up his attack of the central bank’s handling of the case. Jeb Hensarling, a Republican of Texas who chairs the U.S. House…
Category: Exposure
Research group says UC Browser, owned by Alibaba, found to leak data
John Ruwitch reports: A popular mobile web browser from a company that Alibaba Group Holding Ltd paid more than $1 billion for last year leaks sensitive user data and is a privacy risk, a Canadian technology research group said on Thursday. Citizen Lab said Chinese and English-language versions of UC Browser, developed by UCWeb Inc.,…
Hundreds of people who want to hire hackers just got outed
Kashmir Hill reports: In February, an Alabama woman named Terri went on a hacker-for-hire website called Hacker’s List, and posted a job she needed done. “I need to get information off an iPhone6, mainly texts (current and deleted if possible and the call log),” she wrote. “Or get into their email account … Thanks so…
Feds and cops outed as hacker dump exposes ties to adult-dating site
And so it begins… RT reports: The men behind the screen names “Eaglesfan_6969” and “Verywilling2011” are looking for sex, and they’re doing it from government-provided email accounts, according to data pilfered from a hacked dating website. A trove of personal information pertaining to paid account holders of AdultFriendFinder, a website that touts itself as letting…
Yemen Cyber Army data dump contains wealth of personal and government information
Lee Johnstone of cyberwarnews.info (@Cyber_War_News) has analyzed some of the massive amount of Saudi government data dumped by the Yemen Cyber Army and has kindly shared his findings with DataBreaches.net. In their statement, the Yemen Cyber Army (YCA) wrote: We have gained access to the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) network and have full control…
Isle of Man tax haven accidentally leaks personal details of hundreds of taxpayers
Hannah Parry reports: The Isle of Man – a renowned tax haven for the rich and famous – has accidentally leaked the personal details of hundreds of taxpayers. An investigation is underway after the blunder by the island’s tax and revenue body released more than 500 individual email addresses. The mistake came shortly before 5pm…