TeamPoison has been busy, it seems, despite the arrest of one of their members. In a tweet on May 3, the group announced they had hacked the government of Australia: Australian Goverment Owned by TeaMp0isoN : Listen to your citizens : pastebay.net/818484 #TeaMp0isoN — TeaMp0isoN (@TeaMp0isoN__) May 3, 2012 In a statement preceding the data, the…
Category: Non-U.S.
Ie: Security fears for prison staff after details found in cell
Occasionally I’ve noted breaches that leave people concerned for their physical safety. A breach involving Islington Council reported at the end of last month falls into that group, as did an earlier breach involving the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia. Now Cormac O’Keeffe reports on one from Ireland: Prison officers held an emergency meeting with…
UK: Kingston Council faces privacy breach claim
Nazia Dewji reports that a mailing error by Kingston Council resulted in 100 rent statements being sent out with the first page belonging to one tenant’s account and the second page belonging to a different person: The data included details of housing benefits entitlements and other benefits, the name of the bank each tenant used,…
Four Irish, British suspects helped Stratfor hack: U.S.
I updated specific incident reports on DataLossDB.org yesterday, but thought I should mention this here, too. Basil Katz of Reuters reports: Federal prosecutors said four Irish and British men charged in a crackdown on the international hacking group Anonymous also helped breach the security analysis company Stratfor last year. In an indictment made public on…
Calgary detective charged in alleged privacy breach
A 45-year-old Calgary police detective has been charged with unauthorized use of a computer and breach of trust. Police spokesman Kevin Brookwell said a financial institution allegedly approached the officer to get contact information for about 10 people who owed the business money. The officer then allegedly accessed the police database between March 2010 and…
Hackers demand EUR150K ‘idiot tax’ from Dexia in return for stolen customer data
A group claiming to have hacked a Dexia Bank subsidiary’s database is threatening to post sensitive customer information unless it receives an “idiot tax” of EUR150,000 by Friday. In a pastebin statement addressed to the media, the unnamed group says it has “downloaded extensive confidential customer information” from servers belonging to Elantis, a mortgage and consumer credit…