Online gambling sites have had a few mega breaches over the past few years. Now Ultimate Bet Poker (Blanca Games) has joined the unhappy ranks. No one seems to know how or who or when, but a lot of data on 3.5 million players has reportedly been available on the web since November 20. According…
Category: Non-U.S.
College fails to properly dispose of documents – Privacy breach at Red River
Garth Hilderman reports: More than 1,000 pages of campus crime reports, complete with the names, addresses and even photos of some victims, were dumped in a recycling bin at Red River College, a privacy breach the college calls “very serious.” The college has referred the matter to the provincial Ombdusman office to determine the severity…
UK: South Central SHA data breaches affect over 1,800 staff
Health Service Journal calls attention to two breaches that occurred in October involving the South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA) of NHS South of England. According to the December board minutes: The [first] incident occurred in the human resources team in October 2011. The hard copy personnel file was removed from the secure human resources…
250k users exposed in Naijaloaded hack
Missed this one while getting ready for Thanksgiving! Darren Pauli reports: Almost 250,000 user details of popular Nigerian youth forum Naijaloaded have been exposed after the site was hacked. A hacker by the name of TheMrX uploaded a shell on the website and accessed its 42mb user database. The database contained names, usenames, passwords and…
UK: Council files dumped in Telford bin
Confidential council files, some containing sensitive personal data, have been found dumped in a bin in Telford. Telford & Wrekin Council said an immediate investigation was launched after the documents – 58 in total – were found by a member of the public. Officers were today contacting all the people whose data was included to…
Globe and Mail online classroom hacked – again and again? Wake up, Globe and Mail!
Well, I posted this to DataLossDB.org the other day, but seem to have forgotten to have posted it here. Globe and Mail, the Canadian newspaper, had their online classroom site hacked (http://globeclassroom.ca). The hack was disclosed on Pastebin on November 22, at which time I created an entry for it on DLDB. I then tried…