Pierluigi Paganini writes: Hackers belonging the Anonymous collective compromised the website of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and leaked its database containing personal data of its members. The stolen data are related to personnel of WTO sites located in various countries, including Brazil, China, France, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Russia, Santo Domingo, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, United States…
Category: Miscellaneous
Confidential information exposed over 300 times in ICANN security snafu
Kieren McCarthy reports: Two months after claiming there was “no indication” that confidential information was exposed in a security cock-up, domain name overseer ICANN has admitted it happened on at least 330 occasions. Following an audit of its main customer portal, the organization confirmed what we reported at the start of March: that misconfigured Salesforce software had given…
Two Plead Guilty in Florida Tax Refund Fraud Scheme Using Stolen Patient Information
Jermaine Winters, 39, of Coleman, Florida, and Rosetta Presley, 23, of Chipley, Florida, pled guilty yesterday to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and identity theft in connection with the electronic filing of false federal income tax returns. During their pleas, Winters and Presley admitted that between July 2011 and July 2012, they conspired…
MA: Salisbury Fire Department’s computers crippled by possible ransomware attack
AngelaJean Chiaramida reports: A nasty computer virus that had some of the hallmarks of a “ransomware” attack hobbled the Salisbury Fire Department recently, destroying computer files and temporarily forcing staffers to resort to pen and paper. […] The Salisbury Fire Department’s problem began about two weeks ago, when Souliotis’ desk computer started acting strangely when…
Crime Stoppers responds
If you’ve been following this week’s episode of “Breach Alert Hell,” DataBreaches.net has received a response from Ontario Crime Stoppers. I’ve posted their statement under the original breach report, here. I hope the other affected chapters are also taking steps to secure their sites better, but haven’t heard from them.
Oh, to be a fly on the wall (Crime Stoppers breach update)
If you read my post about the hack involving three Canadian chapters of Crime Stoppers, or if you follow me on Twitter (@pogowasright), you know that I’ve had a frustrating time trying to alert those chapters that they’ve been hacked and need to secure their data better. In the interim, as I browsed the pastes of the hacked data (which…