David Wroe reports: Eye test records and personal contact details of hundreds of military personnel including soldiers posted overseas were sent to China in a significant data security breach, Fairfax Media has learnt. The records, which included in many cases mobile phone numbers of personnel, were sent to a processing facility in China’s Guangdong province…
Category: Government Sector
In: BSNL site hacked
R. Dinakaran reports: BSNL’s Telecommunications Journal website has been hacked by AnonOpsIndia. The ‘Anonymous’ group that describes itself as “#OpIndia | Expect Us! ~ Anonymous #Hacktivists” in its Twitter handle, has added one more page to the journal website – http://tj.bsnl.co.in/tjeditions/NOV14/anonops.html – listing its demands to the Central Government. The group has posted a message on…
Poor security at Japan Pension Service preceded cyber-attack / Most leaked files not protected by passwords
Yomiuri Shimbun reports: An investigation into the recent unauthorized access of personal information from the Japan Pension Service found that 99 percent of the files accessed were not protected by passwords, sources said. This contrasts with multiple reports issued since 2013 by all JPS offices nationwide claiming full compliance on password rules. If the files…
Yet more attacks on Canadian government servers
Waqas reports more attacks on Canadian government sites, allegedly in retaliation for the anti-terrorism bill, C-51. The latest targets were rqap.gouv.qc.ca, mess.gouv.qc.ca, and cneae.gouv.qc.ca/ : On Thursday morning, the Anonymous hacktivist group conducted a massive cyber attack on Canadian government servers and breached into the Québec Parental Insurance Plan Centre, The Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Solidarity (MTESS) and…
TeamGhostShell posts “master list” of 548 leaks (so far)
From a paste today that contains this note from the hackers: (Reminder: If you want to help get them patch then please report the vulnerabilities) 1000knigi.mon.gov.mk – M1: http://dpaste.com/2X4DE5K M2: http://ixmr.kpaste.net/b872164eff M3: http://hastebin.com/geyavowama.1c M4: https://dpaste.de/RPG4 austlang.aiatsis.gov.au – M1: http://dpaste.com/3K0JSH6 M2: http://ixmr.kpaste.net/180a M3: http://hastebin.com/inorukinep.md M4: https://dpaste.de/uij2 blr.dole.gov.ph – M1: http://dpaste.com/2KZ5VDM M2: http://ixmr.kpaste.net/cdc38 M3: http://hastebin.com/vacifufiwe.1c M4: https://dpaste.de/o9g4…
#AntiCanadaDay attacks on government sites
It’s Canada Day, but some have a their own approach to the day, as #OpCyberPrivacy explains: Greetings Citizens of Canada, peoples and Anons of the world. We are #OpCyberPrivacy and this is #AntiCanadaDay. On this day we protest against the passing of C-51 and it’s royal assent to law. We protest against the systemic invasion of privacy…