From RBS: In early July, it was revealed that a Thomson Reuters service known as World-Check had licensed information to a client that subsequently failed to secure the database. The leak, discovered by Chris Vickery, affected over 2.2 million persons identified as “heightened-risk individuals” that had been included in the World-Check database between 3/17/2000 and 9/17/2014. Shortly after the discovery, Risk…
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Dota2 forums hacked
As seen on LeakedSource.com: Dota2 official forums was hacked on July 10th, 2016 (http://dev.dota2.com). This data set contains 1,923,972 records. Each record contains an email address, ip address, username, user identifier, and one password. Oh, look… the forum runs on vBulletin. Gee, where have we seen something like this before, I wonder….
Ca: Brant County Health Unit says 494 personal records breached
CTV Kitchener reports: An unauthorized person gained access to the immunization records of nearly 500 people, the Brant County Health Unit says. According to the health unit, the recently discovered breach involves the records of 494 people who submitted information on their child’s immunization via the BCHU website between July 2015 and October 2015. Read…
‘It was an attack’: Australian census website collapses due to ‘malicious foreign hackers’
Catherine Healey reports: The Australian Bureau of Statistics claims its Census website collapsed after it was attacked by foreign hackers. ABS chief statistician David Kalisch told ABC radio Wednesday morning he was certain the Census website had come under a “malicious attack” from a foreign entity. “The online census form was subject to four denial…
Ca: Smiths Falls police lay charges in Family Services data breach
There’s a follow-up to a breach previously reported in April. CTV Ottawa reports that two individuals have been charged in connection with the posting of confidential information from Family and Children’s Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville. Kelley Denham, 28, and Derek Flegg, 50, are facing several charges including mischief, theft and trafficking in identity information. Read…
The spy who hacked a thousand Indian sites
Pro-Pakistan hacker Afzal Faizal who breached the firewalls of more than a thousand Indian websites in the last two years has come under the scanner of Indian security agencies, five days after he claimed to have got access to the e-payment system of a nationalized bank. Intel officials said earlier, Faizal restricted his hacking efforts…