Aliya Sternstein reports: Compensation files for U.S. Postal Service workers might also have been breached during a recent hack that exposed the Social Security numbers and other personal data on about 800,000 USPS employees, a postal inspector said Wednesday. […] “We’re still conducting forensic analysis of the impacted servers,” said Randy Miskanic, incident commander on the…
Category: Hack
The Evolution Store updates its breach notification
The Evolution Store recently sent an updated notification letter to those affected by their previously disclosed e-commerce breach. In their updated notification, William Stevens, President of The Evolution Store, writes that forensic investigation confirmed that unauthorized IP addresses first accessed the e-commerce site on March 2, 2014, and that the last date of unauthorized access was…
Cafe Press subsidiary hacked; photo service on Target site compromised
Cafe Press subsidiary EZ Prints is notifying customers that they recently detected an intrusion in their system that may have compromised card payment information. Only customers placing orders between September 22 and October 23 need to be concerned about this incident. The intruders reportedly exploited an unspecified vulnerability that EZ Print has identified and removed. The…
Anonymous seizes Ku Klux Klan Twitter account over Ferguson threats
Violet Blue reports: Two Twitter accounts belonging to American racial segregation org Ku Klux Klan, @KuKluxKlanUSA and @YourKKKCentral, have been seized by Anonymous as part of the hacker-activist entity’s new campaign, #OpKKK. At 6:31pm PST Anonymous said it has knocked the website belonging to “Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan” — the group responsible for the Ferguson threats —…
Belgian activist files complaint with Belgian Privacy Commissioner over hack
This Belgian blog is really going after Mensura over the recent Rex Mundi hack, reported on this site. The blogger raises a number of good points, including the concern about Belgians providing their national registration numbers to web sites and the fact that so much medical information on named individuals has now been exposed. You…
State Department shuts down email system after suspected hacker attack
Matthew Lee of AP reports: The State Department has taken the unprecedented step of shutting down its entire unclassified email system as technicians repair possible damage from a suspected hacker attack. A senior department official said Sunday that “activity of concern” was detected in the system around the same time as a previously reported incident…