Doha News reports that clients of Qatar National Bank (QNB), employees at Al Jazeera Media Network, and even secret service agents have had what appears to be their details leaked. The names, phone numbers, bank passwords and other sensitive information of what appears to be a large number of Qatar National Bank (QNB) customers has…
Category: Miscellaneous
Church website hacked by extremist Islamic group
Rebecca Russell reports that the website of the Lamont Christian Reformed Church in Michigan was defaced with a message purportedly from the United Cyber Caliphate. A video from the United Cyber Caliphate automatically played reading, “We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses and enslave your women by the permission of Allah, the Exalted”. The church’s website…
Denver Archdiocese payroll system breached, 18,000 at risk
So which vendor was responsible for this one? The archdiocese wouldn’t answer that question when I put it to them…. Tom McGhee reports: Authorities are investigating a data breach at the Catholic Archdiocese of Denver that put current and terminated employees, their dependents, spouses, and beneficiaries at risk of ID theft. A third-party software provider…
Ca: Children’s aid families’ names posted online
Laurie Monsebraaten reports: Police are investigating an unprecedented security breach at a Brockville-area children’s aid society after an electronic file containing the names of 285 families involved with Family and Children’s Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville was made available on Facebook. The breach was discovered Monday at 1:42 p.m. after both a client and a…
Fappening Forum Users Hit by Data Breach, Malvertising, and Then by Ransomware
Some might say that there’s almost some poetic justice in this, but Catalin Cimpanu reports: Users of The Fappening Forum, a place where aficionados once converged to share and collect images from the infamous celebrity nude photos leak, have had their personal details leak this week during a data breach. There is no information available…
Another Greenshades client reports tax filing problems
Add Lower Platte North Natural Resource District to the list of Greenshades clients whose employees are have been alerted to attempted identity theft involving tax refund fraud. According to Wahoo Newspaper, 15 of 18 NRD employees had been told by the IRS that an attempt to file their taxes had been made from a suspicious source. Although…