The Indian Express reports: The Military Intelligence (MI) investigations over leakage of sensitive military information over Facebook by some serving Army officers has zeroed in on three officers of the rank of Colonel, Major and Lieutenant. These officers have been found to be giving out locations of Army units in exchange for sexually explicit conversation…
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Ola Cabs Accidentally Reveals Hundreds of Customers’ Data – and Doesn’t Care? (update1)
Kunal Anand reports that a woman received hundreds of text messages with customer info and couldn’t get Ola Cabs to stop or to care: It turned out, Ola was sending me confirmation messages when other customers made a booking, in BANGALORE!…Hidden within the hashes I found mobile numbers, names and addresses….Ola was sharing with me,…
Ravenhall prison guards’ personal data accessed during remand centre riots
Australian Associated Press reported this last month, but I missed it: Prisoners accessed the personal information of prison guards during riots in Melbourne’s Metropolitan Remand Centre, Corrections Victoria has confirmed. The prisoners gained access to the personal documents of a small number of officers, who have been informed of the breach. Read more on The Guardian. via…
Expert predicts 400 church leaders will resign because their names surfaced in Ashley Madison data dump
Relevant writes: The Ashley Madison hack will have a serious effect on churches. According to Ed Stetzer, as many as 400 pastors, deacons, elders and church staff members may resign this Sunday after their names surfaced on the list of users revealed in the Ashley Madison hack. In a post on his Christianity Today blog, The Exchange, Stetzer…
CIRT-KY Warns eCay Trade Users of Account Hack
GRAND CAYMAN, CAYMAN ISLANDS – 28 August 2015 – The Cyber Incident Response Team Cayman (CIRT-KY ) announced today that it has been made aware of a cybersecurity breach – commonly known as a ‘hack’ – which has affected the security of the email addresses and passwords of thousands of eCay Trade account holders. CIRT-KY…
Ashley Madison CEO Noel Biderman resigns after third leak of emails
Sam Thielman reports: The chief executive of extramarital affairs website Ashley Madison has left the company after a third leak of emails and suggestions that he had affairs despite earlier denials. “Effective today, Noel Biderman, in mutual agreement with the company, is stepping down as Chief Executive Officer of Avid Life Media Inc (ALM) and is no…