This time, it’s Columbus City Schools in Ohio, who report that on May 1, they learned that an employee’s email account had been compromised. Their subsequent investigation resulted in them notifying an undisclosed number of people that their name and social security number had been in the employee’s email account. You can read the October…
Category: Hack
23,600 hacked databases have leaked from a defunct ‘data breach index’ site
Catalin Cimpanu reports: More than 23,000 hacked databases have been made available for download on several hacking forums and Telegram channels in what threat intel analysts are calling the biggest leak of its kind. The database collection is said to have originated from Cit0Day.in, a private service advertised on hacking forums to other cybercriminals. Read…
Founder of hacker group Anonymous reveals his ultimate ‘end-game’
Shawn Langlois reports: Earlier this year, the Atlantic revealed Aubrey Cottle as the internet prankster who years ago started Anonymous, an amorphous collective of hackers and activists waging cyberwar against oppression and corruption by targeting institutions like the Church of Scientology, the Westboro Baptist Church and, most recently, the police department. “Anonymous has all walks of life,”…
New seller (?) offers 17 previously non-public databases for sale
Once again, entities that may not have known that they had been hacked may be discovering that their data are up for sale on a forum. On September 5, a new seller — or at least a new persona — appeared on a well-known forum. On October 28, the seller offered private databases for sale….
KR: Court orders online mall to compensate 2,400 customers for data leak
Depending on how long you have been following this blog, some of you may not remember the Interpark data breach in South Korea in 2016. I had covered it several times, including when it was fined $3.8 million (the largest fine up until that date) for its failure to protect consumer data from from what…
Eatigo reports data breach, personal data from customer accounts listed for sale online
CNA reports: Personal data from potentially 2.8 million eatigo accounts were illegally assessed in a data breach. In an email to customers on Saturday (Oct 31), the restaurant reservation platform said that along with other e-commerce sites, it was the subject of “a data security incident involving unauthorised access to our customer database”. Read more on CNA.