From the no-good-deed-goes-unpunished dept.: If you donated a car to a charity between 2005 and 2014 using the Vehicle Donation Processing Center to make your donation, you may receive a letter this week telling you that your personal information – including name, postal address, Driver’s License number, and Social Security number – was hacked, and may have been…
Category: Hack
Hacking Team hacked, all files dumped (Update 2)
As seen on Twitter tonight: Since we have nothing to hide, we’re publishing all our e-mails, files, and source code https://t.co/dCBZAPTtpD https://t.co/Frr1ut01o5 — Hacked Team (@hackingteam) July 6, 2015 Their Twitter profile has also been, er… edited… to “Hacked Team:” @hackingteam Developing ineffective, easy-to-pwn offensive technology to compromise the operations of the worldwide law enforcement…
NY: Cybercriminal Sentenced To 50 Months For His Role In Hacking Campaign
The following press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York provides an update on a case noted previously on this site involving a hack of JP Morgan Chase to alter prepaid debit cards issued by the American Red Cross for disaster relief victims: June 29 – Earlier today at the…
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…
MI: Around 85K affected in FireKeepers Casino data breach
WoodTV has an update/follow-up on a FireKeepers Casino breach first disclosed in May. Information from thousands of credit and debit cards may have been stolen during a data security breach at FireKeepers Casino in Battle Creek. Officials with FireKeepers Casino confirmed Friday that approximately 85,000 credit and debit cards used between September 7, 2014, and…