Tom Spring reports: The regional internet registrar that administers IP addresses for the Asia Pacific region accidentally leaked Whois database data, including hashed passwords, forcing it to reset all passwords for objects in its Whois database. According to Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC), the organization that maintains domains for the region, it experienced a…
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AU: Financial records, kids names, charity money stolen
Jacob Miley reports: Parents and workers at a child care centre broken into overnight say they’re disappointed more than anything. About $200 of charity money was taken, along with a back up hard drive with all the children’s names and the business’s financial records on it. Centre director Angela Watson said she was certain the…
North Korea Hackers Step Up Bitcoin Attacks
Yuji Nakamura and Sam Kim report: North Korea appears to be stepping up efforts to secure bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, which could be used to avoid trade restrictions including new sanctions approved by the United Nations Security Council. Hackers from Kim Jong Un’s regime are increasing their attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea and…
AU: Blood Service escapes penalties in data breach investigation
Allie Coyne reports: The Australian Red Cross Blood Service and its website contractor have escaped penalties from the country’s privacy watchdog over a 2016 data breach that exposed the data of 550,000 donors. In late October last year the Blood Service revealed its website partner Precedent had inadvertently exposed a 1.74GB database backup containing 1.28 million…
AlphaBay and Hansa taken down in coordinated operations by FBI and Dutch National Police
Takedown of AlphaBay and Hansa will lead to hundreds of new investigations in Europe Months of preparation and coordination have resulted today, 20 July 2017, in the takedown of two of the largest criminal Dark Web markets, AlphaBay and Hansa. Two major law enforcement operations, led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the US…
How about the truth, the WHOLE truth, and….. ?
So Harvest Bible Chapel d/b/a Walk in the Word Ministries notified donors of a vendor breach that they learned about on May 30, 2017. We determined that the unknown individual may have accessed payment information, including name, address, telephone number, credit/debit card, or checking account information depending on the form of payment you used on our…