We End Violence LLC is notifying an unspecified number of students that their personal information may be in the hands of hackers after the Agent of Change web site was accessed by unauthorized individual(s). The compromised personal information includes gender identity, ethnicity, relationship status, sexual identity, and other personally identifiable information. Here is their notice:…
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IL: Village Pizza & Pub notifies customers of data security breach at TransformPOS
I wonder how many other TransformPOS clients may be notifying customers. So far, I do not see any notice on TransformPOS’s web site about this incident. From Village Pizza & Pub’s press release: On July 27, 2015, Village Pizza & Pub learned that the company that provides its point-of-sale payment card processing system, TransformPOS, had been…
Pentagon unveils new rules requiring contractors to disclose data breaches
Aliya Sternstein reports: New sweeping defense contractor rules on hack notifications take effect today, adding to a flurry of Pentagon IT security policies issued in recent years. Just this month, the Office of Management and Budget proposed guidelines to homogenize the way vendors secure data governmentwide. The Defense Department had already released three other policies that dictate how military vendors…
Aviva ‘revenge’ phone hacker jailed for 18 months
BBC reports: A man has been jailed for 18 months for hacking into 900 phones belonging to the insurance company Aviva. Richard Neale, 40, pleaded guilty to carrying out the attack as revenge after falling out with colleagues. He was previously a director at Esselar, a company contracted by Aviva to run its security network….
Anonymous Hacks South African Government Contractor for #OpMonsanto
Waqas reports: Anonymous conducted the attack under the banner of #OperationSA and #OpMonsanto in which the prime target of the attack was South African government contractor IT company’s subsidiaries “State Information Technology Agency (SITA).” SITA suffered a massive breach on 12th August in which Anonymous accessed its online servers and leaked a trove of confidential data over…
London’s new online appeals service suffers data protection breach
Deniz Huseyin reports: London Tribunals’ online appeals service had to be temporarily shut down last month after a data protection flaw was discovered by a parking campaigner. The shutdown happened 10 days after the online service switched to a new system when Northgate Public Services replaced Capita as the London Tribunals contractor, appointed by London…