Neil Hartnell reports: The Save the Bays activist group yesterday informed the data protection watchdog it will submit a formal complaint over the leaking of its private e-mails, once its own investigation and legal analysis is completed. Ferron Bethell, the attorney acting for the Save the Bays plaintiffs, branded the leak as “one of the…
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GA: Non-profit director leaves town and abandons donations and clients’ personal information
WRDW reports: The director of the non-profit organization, Community in Action, left town and abandoned donations along with her clients’ personal information. Her landlord discovered copies clients’ social security cards, drivers’ licenses and birth certificates left in the home. Trish Wilcher took back possession of her rental home just a few weeks ago. She rented…
Security education outfit EC-Council dishes out ransomware online
First it was a hospital serving up ransomware to web site visitors. Now the website of the EC-Council, who are responsible for the Ethical Hacker certification, is reportedly serving up the Angler exploit kit to infect PCs. And as we heard with the Norfolk General Hospital, it seems to be difficult to notify them and get a response from the…
Hacker breaches USA Cycling, personal information at risk
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…
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…