On December 29, Texas Children’s Hospital was notified by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office that its Accounts Payable system may have suffered a security breach. Names and Social Security Numbers of some employees and vendors who received checks between 1999 and 2011 may have been accessed by an unauthorized third party and the information…
Category: Hack
(follow-up) HuskyDirect.com site still down, some victims report fraud
As a follow-up to a previously reported breach involving a hack of HuskyDirect.com, there are now some reports suggesting that the data may have been misused. Back on January 11, U.Conn had posted a notice to its web site: The UConn Co-op was informed by its vendor that there has been a data security incident involving…
28 million Plenty of Fish users’ personal details hacked – report (updated)
The founder and CEO of dating site Plenty of Fish reports that the site has been hacked and users’ names, email addresses, and passwords may have been acquired. Whether PayPal account information and other personal details were also acquired is uncertain and depends on whose version of the hack you read. It’s also uncertain whether…
Hackers didn’t retrieve data in Defense pharmacy website attack
Bob Brewin follows up a government site that appeared on a hacker’s list of compromised sites for sale: No data has been siphoned off the Defense Department PharmacoEconomic Center website and domain as the result of a hacker attack reported by a security firm last week, a Military Health System spokesman said. Austin Camacho, a spokesman…
2011: The Year of Epic Hacking
Darlene Storm has an interesting recap of some breaches in the first month of 2011 that includes a breach this blog didn’t even know about. Specifically: In India, Domino’s Pizza database of online ordering customers was hacked. It sent a letter to customers, alerting them of the breach, yet the company sort of blew it off…
Hacker may have sold access to Marshall U. website
Yesterday, I noted that I had contacted Marshall University about a hacker offering “Full SiteAdmin Control” to their server for $99.00. My purpose in contacting them was two-fold: to alert them to a possible breach that they needed to look into and to ask for a comment or response. I never got to the second…