Anxiety UK has signed an undertaking with the Information Commissioner’s Office after personal data held within a password protected area of Anxiety UK’s website, was publically available for approximately 12 months via an internet search engine. The ICO was notified of the breach in February 2015 by Anxiety UK. Investigation revealed that the information had…
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Yeah, that explains it
“It’s just sort of the vagaries of the system (on) how it got corrupted” — a statement by the secretary for Catholic education at the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese, on the catastrophic failures affecting computer servers in July that have delayed school opening at one high school.
FBI catches swatter who said “you can’t catch a hacker”
Lee Munson reports: If you can’t do the time then you shouldn’t do the crime. And if you’re going to boast that you can’t get caught, you probably ought to be good at covering your tracks. At least, that’s the lesson I assume one Zachary Lee Morgenstern has learned. The Texan teenager has pleaded guilty to one…
ICANN admits to hack of website users’ accounts
Shaun Nichols reports: ICANN says its website’s user accounts have been compromised by hackers who gained access to their names, email addresses, hashed passwords, and more. On Wednesday, the domain-name system overlord admitted its server security was breached within the past week: an “unauthorized person” obtained account records, which included harmless info such as site preferences, and…
MA: Local girl with rare condition has fundraising money stolen
Hackers stole hundreds of dollars from a bank account a young child had created to buy toys for other sick children. MyFoxBoston has the story: Noelle Gregoire first started raising money in “Laps for Backs” after she was inspired by her own trips to Tufts Floating Hospital. Gregoire suffers from a rare degenerative spinal condition,…
Athletics roiled by mass doping allegations after blood test leak
Karolos Grohmann reports: Endurance runners suspected of doping have been winning a third of Olympic and world championship medals, two news organizations said on Sunday, after a leak of thousands of blood test results from 2001-2012 threw global athletics into chaos. Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper and Germany’s ARD/WDR broadcaster said they had obtained the secret…