So Harvard gets hacked and dozens of media outlets dutifully headline it. But when millions of students, faculty, and staff at Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) had their hacked personal and financial information up for sale after MCCCD failed to properly secure their network following an earlier hack, most media outlets never even mentioned it – and…
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TeamGhostShell posts “master list” of 548 leaks (so far)
From a paste today that contains this note from the hackers: (Reminder: If you want to help get them patch then please report the vulnerabilities) 1000knigi.mon.gov.mk – M1: http://dpaste.com/2X4DE5K M2: http://ixmr.kpaste.net/b872164eff M3: http://hastebin.com/geyavowama.1c M4: https://dpaste.de/RPG4 austlang.aiatsis.gov.au – M1: http://dpaste.com/3K0JSH6 M2: http://ixmr.kpaste.net/180a M3: http://hastebin.com/inorukinep.md M4: https://dpaste.de/uij2 blr.dole.gov.ph – M1: http://dpaste.com/2KZ5VDM M2: http://ixmr.kpaste.net/cdc38 M3: http://hastebin.com/vacifufiwe.1c M4: https://dpaste.de/o9g4…
@TeamGhostShell Returns with Leak the entire summer
If you remember @TeamGhostShell from pre 2013, then you are in for a surprise, almost exactly 2 years and 6 months away they have returned with a rampage of leaked data from all sorts of websites. On the 29th June 2015 came a tweet that was much unexpected and from there on has been a near…
TeamGhostShell is back… with over 400 databases dumped
Lee J. writes: If you remember @TeamGhostShell from pre 2013, then you are in for a surprise, almost exactly 2 years and 6 months away they have returned with a rampage of leaked data from all sorts of websites. […] So far there has been 444 different databases dumped from sites and sub-domains mostly being education and government based….
IE: Data-security breach notifications jumped 50% last year
The Irish Examiner reports: There was a 50% jump in the number of data-security breach notifications to the Data Protection Officer last year compared to 2013. The office also investigated controversies involving PPS numbers at Irish Water and the Department of Education, and engaged with the Department of Communications in relation to Eircode – the…
MS: State alerts school district that it’s exposing personal and sensitive student information
Kate Royals The Mississippi Department of Education is asking the Tunica County School District to alert parents and other community members after its students’ personal information was posted on the website. The information included social security numbers, medical and discipline data, Detention/Suspension Roster Summaries, Mississippi Student Information System numbers, disability status and more, according to…