In today’s headlines: ISIS Supporter Hacks 54,000 Twitter Accounts and Posts Details of Heads of the CIA and FBI (The Hacker News) and Pro-Palestinian Hackers Took over Twitter Account of Israeli Ha’aretz Newspaper (HackRead)
Category: Non-U.S.
Data from the TalkTalk data breach up for sale – Daily Mail
Posted while maintaining what I think is an appropriate level of skepticism… Ben Ellery and Jaber Mohamed, who continue to report as if the dark web is something new, report that they are in contact with someone who uses the handle “The Martian” who claims to have 1 million TalkTalk users’ information – email addresses, bank account…
UK: Probe after 1,000 tenants caught up in data security breach
Stuart Greer reports: A social landlord has admitted a data security breach where private information of almost 1,000 residents’ was released. A member of staff from the Customer Experience Team at Peaks and Plains Housing Trust accidentally sent a mass email to 994 residents on Wednesday morning, but failed to use the ‘blind carbon copy’…
UK: Popular postcard app Touchnote suffers data breach
Dan Thorp-Lancaster reports: The team behind Touchnote, a popular Android app for sending photos you’ve taken as postcards, has sent an email out to customers announcing that the service was hit by a data breach, resulting in customer information such as name and address being accessed. Read more on Android Central. From the FAQ on…
UK: Police watchdog to probe claims 2002 theft of Special Branch personnel info at Castlereagh police station involved inside help
On March 17, 2002, there was a break-in and burglary at Castlereagh police station. The records that were stolen put lives at risk, as the stolen data included a list of officers in the Special Branch intelligence unit with contact details, and the code names of paramilitary agents and their handlers. Dozens of officers subsequently had to move…
Ca: Simcoe nurse suspended by College of Nurses over privacy breach at Norfolk General Hospital
Monte Sonnenberg has a follow-up to a breach I commented on back in 2013: A Simcoe nurse fired from Norfolk General Hospital for inappropriately looking at medical records says she has been made “a scapegoat” for deficient management practices by her former employer. Nancy Oliveira said she did nothing that other nurses at NGH were not…