David Bisson reports: A hacker recently breached the systems of USA Cycling and potentially compromised members’ personal information. On Friday afternoon, USA Cycling, the official cycling organization recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), warned that it had suffered a “data security incident”. In an email sent out…
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Hackers attack Switzerland’s largest party, claim huge personal data theft
RT reports: A hacker group claims to have cracked the database of Switzerland’s largest political party, the conservative Swiss People’s Party (SVP) and stolen the personal data of over 50,000 people, including the names and email addresses of SVP supporters. Contacting the website by letter, the hackers calling themselves NSHC, said they wanted to raise…
Website of Hinjewadi Industries Association hacked, Anti Terrorism Squad steps in
Express News Service reports: The website of the Hinjewadi Industries Association (HIA) was hacked on Tuesday morning. Confirming it, Anil Patwardhan, president of the HIA, said, “The association had disabled the website for the last week or so in view of the upgradation work. We got to know about the hacking Tuesday morning. We would…
Non-profit Code.org notifies volunteers whose email addresses were exposed
From Code.org’s blog, yesterday: Some volunteer email addresses compromised 🙁 On Friday night we discovered and fixed an error in the Code.org site that allowed access to our volunteer email addresses. This wasn’t a case of hackers breaching our security systems, rather it was our mistake of leaving volunteer email addresses accessible via the web…
Hackers Claim Breach Of Ku Klux Klan’s Security Company, Staminus (update2)
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: A website run by the Ku Klux Klan has been downed as part of what appears to be a significant breach of its host and security provider Staminus. The company, which promises to protect users from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, was exposed by a crew going by the name of FTA,…
Data Breach Notification: Islamic State Human Resources & Recruiting
Steve Ragan helps out Daesh by creating a data breach notification letter for them to use in the wake of an insider breach that resulted in info on 22,000 Jihadis being in the hands of Sky News (and now governments): Data Breach Notification: Islamic State Human Resources & Recruiting Enjoy.