Michelle Merlin reports that Nazareth Area School District has sent out about 5,000 letters to families and teachers after discovering that a student accessed data and uploaded it onto a flash drive between 2011 and 2014. District Superintendent Dennis Riker said the old data contained student information from the district’s lunch program as well as information from a…
Category: Hack
(CORRECTED) QNB hackers to leak more data of another big bank soon – Kaspersky
It sounds like big trouble is brewing for a bank that has yet to be named. Naushad K. Cherrayil reports: The hackers who attacked Qatar National Bank last week have attacked a second bank and are set to leak more data, a security expert told Gulf News on Monday. “They have announced that they are going to…
Anonymous PH calls for release of COMELEC website hacker
Tetch Torres-Torres reports: Members of Anonymous Philippines trooped to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday and called for the release of their member currently in detention and facing charges for defacing the Commission on Elections (Comelec) website last March. Clad in Guy Fawkes masks, the group said Paul Z. Biteng should be released from…
Qatar National Bank confirms limited hack, reassures customers
I’ve been keeping an eye out to see if the Qatar National Bank would confirm claims that they had been hacked. Now they have. From their web site: Doha, 1 May, 2016 – QNB Group’s Risk Team monitored abnormal activity in our system environment, this was immediately communicated to relevant authorities. We also took immediate steps…
Verifier web site allows you to check to see if your data were in the QNB data dump
The concept of web sites that allow you to check to see if your data were caught up in a hack and data dump really took off after Troy Hunt opened HaveIBeenPwned.com. Now there’s a site that allows you to check to see if your data were caught up in the Qatar National Bank (QNB) data…
Some Users of InnerChef Had Info Hacked and Leaked
Siriam Sharma reports: An anonymous hacker has been able to infiltrate food delivery startup InnerChef‘s servers, and has leaked a partial list of names, phone numbers, and email addresses used at registration to demonstrate the exploit. Gadgets 360 confirmed the data breach by calling and verifying three of the phone numbers provided in the list…