Gah. Soooo many leaks and breaches are due to default settings that over-share. How hard is it for software to set default settings to NOT share with everyone? C’mon, folks. Sue Dunlevy reports: THE private health records of Australians can be accessed by more than half a million people under the latest bungle with the $2.2…
Wonga warns 270,000 borrowers of possible data theft
Mark Vandevelde reports that payday lender Wonga is notifying 270,000 customers that their personal details may have been acquired by a hacker. In related coverage, Shruti Tripathi Chopra of City A.M. reports: Personal details of 245,000 UK customers of payday lender Wonga may have been stolen in a data breach discovered last week. City A.M. understands that information including…
Shadow Brokers Publish the Password for the Rest the Stolen NSA Hacking Tools (and Lecture President Trump)
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The Shadow Brokers (TSB) are back, and they’ve released the password for the rest of the hacking tools they claim to have stolen from the NSA last year.TSB is a mysterious group that appeared in the summer of 2016 when they dumped on GitHub and other sites a trove of files they…
The threat within: Arrests of former employees announced in two New Jersey cases
Jessica Mazzola reports: An East Brunswick man was arrested Friday on charges he stole about 20,000 confidential files from his employer to open a consulting business after his retirement, federal authorities said. Anchi Hou, 61, a retired employee of DuPont, was charged was theft of trade secrets after allegedly copying and stealing the files from…
Former Allegro worker accused of inserting ‘time bomb’ in company network
Craig S. Semon reports: A Shrewsbury man is accused of hacking into the main computer network of his former employer, Allegro MicroSystems, and uploading and inserting malicious computer programming code. Nimesh Patel, of 1 Ptarmigan Drive, Shrewsbury, is charged with violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, trespassing and conversion. Read more on The Telegram.
Tax information of some University of Louisville employees hacked
Chris Larson reports: Tax information for dozens of University of Louisville employees has been compromised after a hack of the online system the university uses to give employees access to tax documents. John Karman, university director of media relations, said Friday the university confirmed that 83 employees’ W-2 forms were downloaded or accessed without authorization…