Jenn Strathman reports: Cyber hackers from Turkey hacked into the city of Akron’s website and replaced city messages with politically-motivated ones on Thursday. Also, nearly 8,000 taxpayers had their personal information stolen including their names, addresses, and social security numbers. I don’t know about you, but I would have lead with the theft of the…
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TerraCom notifies 150,000 Lifeline applicants after breach
Here’s a breach I didn’t see in the media but first learned of from the Wisconsin Office of Privacy Protection. According to that office, on April 26, 2013, TerraCom, a wireless learned of a security breach involving unauthorized access to personal data and downloaded files related to over 150,000 individuals. The data was stored on…
Nuix and EDRM republish Enron data set cleansed of more than 10,000 items containing private, health and financial information
A follow-up to an issue recently raised by BeyondRecognition.net and discussed on this blog. SAN FRANCISCO, CA – May 15, 2013 — Nuix, a worldwide provider of information management technologies, and EDRM, the leading standards organization for the eDiscovery and information governance market, have today republished the EDRM Enron PST Data Set after cleansing it of private,…
Bloomberg ‘Leaked Over 10,000 Private Messages’
As if Bloomberg wasn’t getting enough bad press already, they reportedly also had a data breach. Tom Brewster of TechWeekEurope reports: Bloomberg is in hot water over privacy again, after it was claimed the company had left over 10,000 private messages sent by its customers online. The revelations come at a bad time for Bloomberg,…
Washington state Administrative Office of the Courts hack due to unpatched ColdFusion vulnerability
Rachel La Corte has more on the hack reported earlier today on this blog: The breach happened due to vulnerability in an Adobe Systems Inc. software program, ColdFusion, that has since been patched, court officials said. The hack happened sometime after September but wasn’t caught until February, they said. […] Mike Keeling, the courts’ information…
160,000 Social Security numbers and 1 million driver license numbers exposed in hack of WA Administrative Office of the Courts
Rachel La Corte reports: The Washington state Administrative Office of the Courts was hacked in February, and up to 160,000 Social Security numbers and 1 million driver license numbers may have been accessed during the data breach of its public website. Officials with the courts announced Thursday that so far, it has been confirmed that…