On December 2, the U.S. Fund for Unicef discovered that it had been hacked on or about November 4. Upon discovery, they immediately disabled and disconnected the server from the network, and arranged for forensic examination. The investigation confirmed that only the one server was involved, but that personal information – including names, phone numbers,…
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WA: Fire department medical response records and personnel information hacked
Press release from NORCOM, issued yesterday: BELLEVUE, Wash.–The North East King County Regional Public Safety Communication Agency (NORCOM) has announced it is working with local and federal agencies to investigate the security breach of a server that stored records of an estimated 6,000 medical responses for Duvall Fire District 45, Skykomish Fire Department and Snoqualmie Pass Fire & Rescue (Fire District…
Hackers Steal Card Data from Neiman Marcus
Brian Krebs reports: Responding to inquiries about a possible data breach involving customer credit and debit card information, upscale retailer Neiman Marcus acknowledged today that it is working with the U.S. Secret Service to investigate a hacker break-in that has exposed an unknown number of customer cards. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com.
Target update: 70 million MORE customers affected by breach (Update)
From their press release of today: MINNEAPOLIS — January 10, 2014 Target today announced updates on its continuing investigation into the recent data breach and its expected fourth quarter financial performance. As part of Target’s ongoing forensic investigation, it has been determined that certain guest information — separate from the payment card data previously disclosed —…
Hackers use Amazon cloud to scrape mass number of LinkedIn member profiles
Dan Goodin reports: LinkedIn is suing a gang of hackers who used Amazon’s cloud computing service to circumvent security measures and copy data from hundreds of thousands of member profiles each day. Read more on Ars Technica.
The Straight Dope forum hacked – reset your passwords
The following notice was posted on The Straight Dope on January 7: Important Message about your Straight Dope Account and Password Our security team recently discovered that the Straight Dope message board forum was targeted and hacked. This resulted in the illegal acquisition of message board users’ information, namely usernames, email addresses, and Straight Dope…