Earlier this week, Jigsaw Security noted that they had discovered that improper redaction of documents posted on the Virginia Dept of Human Resource Management website was potentially exposing employees’ personal information: A PDF posted by this organization contained information that was obfuscated by blocks but was a layered image so if you edit the document the…
Category: Government Sector
Thai justice system hacked by Blink Hacker Group; personal info dumped
It appears that Anonymous is not quite done going after the Thai justice system with its #BoycottThailand campaign. Recent attacks on almost 300 government sites have been in response to the conviction of two migrant workers in the murder of two British backpackers, David Miller and Hannah Witheridge – a conviction that Anonymous finds totally unjust. Not only has Anonymous defaced government sites,…
FL: Orlando Woman Sentenced To Three Years In Federal Prison For Stolen Identity Refund Fraud
There’s an update to a case previously mentioned on this site. Shantrell Sharae Stephenson has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for stolen identity refund fraud. She was also ordered to pay $92,532 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. She pleaded guilty on August 26, 2015. According to court documents, Lori Ann Dilworth,…
Anonymous claims it brought down 200 Thai websites over British murders verdict
Amy Sawitta Lefevre reports: International hacking movement Anonymous said it attacked hundreds of Thai government websites over death sentences handed down to two migrant workers for the murder of two British tourists. […] Some rights workers say they believe police forced the two into confessing under duress. Police denied that. In a message posted on…
Teen Who Hacked CIA Email Is Back to Prank US Spy Chief
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: One of the “teenage hackers” who broke into the CIA director’s AOL email account last year hasn’t given up targeting government intelligence officials. His latest victim is the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Motherboard has learned. A group of hackers calling themselves “Crackas With Attitude” or CWA made headlines in October, hacking into…
AU: Google search puts NSW Medical Council on the wrong side of privacy laws
Paris Cowan reports: A NSW tribunal has ruled that the state’s Medical Council breached privacy laws when it published what it thought was a redacted PDF document on its website, but in doing so revealed the hidden identities of a doctor and her son to Google’s web crawling bot. In April, the NSW Civil and…