I’m having one of those “WTH???” moments. Read this report from Associated Press: Some state employees and vendors who do business with Alabama are being notified that their personal information was accessed when hackers infiltrated a state computer system. The state Department of Homeland Security announced today that it was making the notifications, but wouldn’t…
Category: Hack
Debunking claims that Mossad’s database was leaked
In a blog post on March 24, I expressed my profound skepticism over claims that Mossad’s database of agents had been hacked and/or leaked. Today, HuHu points me to a blog post in which the more likely source of the leaked data is revealed. The tagged email addresses in the leaked data suggest to HuHu…
FTC lawsuit against Wyndham moves to New Jersey
I haven’t read the court document yet, but Law360 alerts us that Wyndham won a round in court and succeeded in getting the FTC’s lawsuit moved to New Jersey from Arizona.
Montreal Police officers’ and undercover agents’ information dumped on Dropbox
Laura Casella reports: There has been an apparent security breach at the Montreal police department. Hackers have released a large amount of confidential files. […] The files are filled with personal information about the SPVM [Service de police de la Ville de Montréal]. What looks to be the most worrisome is a file containing the…
Attacks ‘highlight need for data breach notification law’
Paul Smith reports: The Australian Bankers Association has defended the strength of IT security processes in place across Australia’s banking system following the revelation that Reserve Bank of Australia systems had been compromised by China-based hackers. However, security experts said the incident highlighted the need for Australian data breach notification laws to be tightened to force…
More problems for Subway: Feds charge two men in plot to sell hacked Subway gift cards worth $40,000
Cyrus Farivar reports that Subway, who had previous hacking problems, has had other problems: Two California men were charged in a case involving hacking point-of-sale (POS) computers at various Subway restaurants in a newly unsealed indictment on Friday in Boston. The two suspects are Shahin Abdollahi, aka “Sean Holdt,” and Jeffrey Thomas Wilkinson, both of…