From the ICO: The ICO has found serious failings in the way volunteers at a national dementia support charity handled sensitive personal data. It has orderedThe Alzheimer’s Society to take action after discovering that volunteers were using personal email addresses to receive and share information about people who use the charity, storing unencrypted data on…
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Did a Christian right-wing organization expose private details of millions of people?
First someone left our voter registration details exposed to the world, but those were “just public records,” some argued. Now a second misconfigured database has been uncovered by Chris Vickery. This one, however, not only includes some states’ voter lists, but it also includes 19 million profiles with private information on religion, household values, gun ownership…
Anonymous Hacks Asia Pacific Telecommunity to Protest Against Censorship In Asia
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Members of the Anonymous hacker collective have defaced the Asia Pacific Telecommunity website (apt.int), gained access to the site’s admin panel (running Drupal), and also managed to get their hands on a database dump. Cyberguerilla.org reported the attack yesterday and provided screen shots and a link to the data that appears to contain information on…
Feds widen probe into lottery IT boss who rooted game for profit
Iain Thomson reports: Federal investigators have confirmed that they are widening a probe into fraud by the former IT security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association (MSLA). In July, Eddie Tipton, 52, was found guilty of fraudulently installing a rootkit in the MSLA’s random-number generating computer that allowed him to predict the digits for future winning tickets….
Cybersleuth’s scary find: Hackers, some at least Iran-based, can control dated U.S. power grid networks
AP reports: Security researcher Brian Wallace was on the trail of hackers who had snatched a California university’s housing files when he stumbled into a larger nightmare: Cyberattackers had opened a pathway into the networks running the U.S. power grid. Read more on The Japan Times.
Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign sues the DNC
It wouldn’t be a presidential campaign without at least one data leak, right? So a contractor screws up, allowing Sanders’ staffers to access Clintons’ data on potential voters. Clinton campaign alleges the data were “stolen.” The DNC cuts off the Sanders’ campaign access to their own potential voter data. And in tonight’s chapter, the Sanders…