Five councils breached the Data Protection Act by failing to keep people’s personal information secure, Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, said today: Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council breached the Data Protection Act on four separate occasions during a two month period last year. The breaches included an incident in May when an individual was mistakenly sent…
Category: Miscellaneous
Hacker attacks restaurant supplier and alternative dispute resolution center
A hacker known as Visi0nZ has dumped 307 customers’ data from Andy Catering Equipment Ltd. in London: first and last names, e-mail and postal addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and plain-text passwords. The hack was revealed on Monday. RSI’s Court ADR Resource Center was also attacked on Monday. The names, postal addresses, phone and…
NYSEG and RG&E Notify Customers of Unauthorized Access to Customer Data
From NYSEG: New York State Electric & Gas (NYSEG) and Rochester Gas and Electric (RG&E), subsidiaries of Iberdrola USA, today began sending precautionary notifications to customers advising them of unauthorized access to customer data. This situation involves an employee at an independent software development consulting firm (contracted by NYSEG and RG&E) who allowed unauthorized access…
UK: SDT suspends ACS:Law founder for two years
James Swift reports: ACS:Law founder Andrew Crossley has been suspended from practising for two years and ordered to pay £76,326.55 in costs at a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) hearing yesterday (16 January). Crossley, who is bankrupt and represented himself, admitted six charges levied at him by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) as a result of…
#OpFreePalestine continues to hack Israeli sites
Anti-Israeli cyberattacks continue. Although I have not noted all previous attacks on this blog, in Pastebin releases over the past two days, data from a number of Israeli web sites have been dumped: From TopLinks: 56 advertisers’ links with the admin/MD5 password for KRNEWS From Bar-Ilan University Geography and Environment Department: 36 names, e-mail addresses, and…
Making political hay of the CSLEA hack?
And so the political fallout and fingerpointing begins? Suzanne Phan of News10 in California reports that the Peace Officers of California (POC) are demanding a full legislative investigation of the California State Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) hack by members of Anonymous/AntiSec. Phan identifies POC as a “rival subset” of CSLEA. Jim Sanders elaborates in The…