The Linux Foundation has mailed users of the Linux.com and LinuxFoundation.org sites informing them that they discovered a security breach on 8 September which “may have compromised your username, password, email address and other information”. The Foundation says that it believes the breach is connected to the security breach at kernel.org at the start of…
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Update: Two held in Fine Gael hacking inquiry
Two teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of hacking into the Fine Gael website. The party’s new website was hacked into in January and the details of 2,000 subscribers were stolen. Read more on RTÉ. Previous coverage on DataBreaches.net can be found here.
WikiLeaks breach exposes unredacted US cables; organization blames Guardian reporter
James Ball of The Guardian reports: A Twitter user has now published a link to the full, unredacted database of embassy cables. The user is believed to have found the information after acting on hints published in several media outlets and on the WikiLeaks Twitter feed, all of which cited a member of rival whistleblowing…
Society of Manufacturing Engineers reports theft of credit card numbers and personal data
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) appears to have suffered a serious security breach. By letter dated August 16, the Dearborn-Michigan based organization notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that on August 10, there was unauthorized access to their server, resulting in data theft. Individuals’ names, addresses, dates of birth, credit card numbers with…
UK: Thousands of tenants’ details, including 800 bank account numbers, found on memory stick left in a London pub
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Two London housing bodies breached the Data Protection Act after details relating to thousands of their tenants were discovered on an unencrypted memory stick left in a pub, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The memory stick was handed in to the police and safely retrieved at a later…
OH: Children’s Private Documents Made Public
An investigation continued on Wednesday to determine the person who failed to destroy private documents from a foster care and left them sitting outside near a recycling bin on the north side. The files contained personal information including medical information, criminal records and details of the children’s troubled past, 10TV’s Andy Hirsch reported. Arlene Davey,…