Elinor Mills reports: About 1.27 million user IDs and email addresses belonging to people looking for employment on The Washington Post jobs website were affected by a data breach in June, the newspaper has said. “We discovered that an unauthorised third party attacked our Jobs website and was able to obtain access to certain user…
Category: Hack
Out of sight, but not out of court
I’ve been busy recently, backfilling DataLossDB.org. I’m currently working on 2007 (because who wants to tackle 2008 until we have to, right?). In the process, I’ve been reminded of some breaches that most of us probably never paid much attention to or followed up on. As a case in point, consider this entry in my…
Connexion Hack Team dumps military and government email addresses and passwords as well as a California government site’s table of donors
16,959 e-mail accounts have been dumped to MediaFire recently, ZeroPaid has learned. The 1.18MB text file was uploaded by Connexion Hack Team. The file contains government and military e-mail accounts and passwords. ZeroPaid has also learned that many popular e-mail providers are also seen in the list of accounts compromised. Read more on ZeroPaid, who provide a…
Computer-Hacking Group Targets Apple In Latest Attack
Well, by now it may not be their latest attack, as the news report by Ian Sherr was published yesterday in the Wall Street Journal: A group of computer hackers on Sunday posted a document it claimed contains usernames and passwords for an Apple Inc. server, the latest in a string of brazen attacks that have compromised…
FedEx subsidiary notifies employees that the ADP/Workscape breach exposed their Social Security Numbers and direct deposit account information
FedEx Smartpost (FXG), a subsidiary of FedEx Ground Package System, was affected by the ADP/Workscape breach reported a few weeks. At the time, ADP had indicated that the intrusion affecting Workscape only affected one client as far as they knew. FXG appears to be that client. According to a letter sent by FXG’s lawyers to…
In: Hackers hit National Security Guards website
Durgesh Nandan Jha reports: In a major security breach, the website of the National Security Guards (NSG) was hacked on Friday by anonymous programmers. Sources said the e-mails of certain officers were also hacked after which orders were issued to all officers and the NSG unit posted at the Palam headquarters to avoid using internet…