Jaikumar Vijayan reports: A hacker today claimed to have broken into ITWallStreet.com, a website for IT professionals seeking jobs or working with Wall Street firms, and exposed highly detailed data belonging to tens of thousands of job applicants. As many as 12 data files containing detailed information on job applicants were publicly posted today after…
Category: Hack
OR: Search warrant documents student’s computer hacking
More details have emerged on the North Eugene High School, Oregon breach. Karen McCowan reports: A 16-year-old former North Eugene High School student — accused of illegally accessing and posting a spreadsheet last month that contained the confidential information of thousands of Eugene students — was caught in late 2011 using an administrative password to…
Gegevens 800.000 Nederlanders gestolen door hacker (800,000 Dutch data stolen by hackers)
Via Google translation: The databases of several major websites are stolen by criminals after a Proserve internet server was hacked. In total, data from approximately 800,000 persons have been stolen. These large databases, including Q-Music, Stedin, the Telegraaf Media Groep café, and various online stores such as Pleinshoppen, Internetbikes en Brekelmans Modelbouw. Read more on…
CORRECTION
A post that previously appeared here incorrectly indicated that the Utah Dept. of Health had first sent out some notification letters this week. My apologies to the state. The notification letters related to a breach at University of Nebraska that was disclosed in May.
Seattle Man Sentenced To Prison For Computer Hacking, Fraud And Identity Theft
Joshuah Allen Witt, 35, of Seattle was sentenced yesterday to 95 months in prison and three years of supervised release for a crime spree that involved both physical burglary, and hacking into computer systems to steal personal and business information used in a variety of thefts and frauds. The sentencing was announced by U.S. Attorney…
In: IIM-A suspects data theft from its servers
Haven’t seen anything on Pastebin or Twitter claiming responsibility, so I have no idea if this report is related to any kind of hacktivism, but Press Trust of India reports: The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has filed a complaint with the police “apprehending” theft of data from its computer network and servers by unauthorised…