Two organisations have taken action after they breached the Data Protection Act by failing to encrypt personal information on laptops that were later stolen, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) breached the Data Protection Act in May 2011 when a laptop – containing sensitive personal data – was…
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California SEIU Hospital Benefits Clerk Sentenced for $1M+ Identity Theft
This seems to be my day for updating older cases. Carl Horowitz provides an update to a breach that was first disclosed in February 2009 but actually occurred in July 2007: Mia Camille Garza describes herself as “somebody who has fallen off the path.” Her victims understandably aren’t as charitable. Last Thursday, September 22, Garza,…
Intel officials’ emails posted after hack of cybersecurity group
Michael Isikoff reports: The names and email addresses of hundreds of U.S. intelligence officials — including some senior officials in the Obama Administration — have been posted on an anti-secrecy website after computer hackers allegedly swiped them from the internal membership list of a prestigious national security organization. The apparent cyberattack on the Intelligence and…
Security breach at Linux Foundation
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…
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…