Here’s yet another hack from 2012 where the data are now first circulating online. See previous coverage of the Last.fm hack here. Today LeakedSource announced that they had added the Last.fm data to their repository: Music service Last.fm was hacked on March 22nd, 2012 for a total of 43,570,999 users. This data set was provided…
Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants concludes investigation into breach
Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants have provided an updated press release after completing the investigation they began in July. The relevant parts of their press release: Findings from the investigation show that malware was installed on servers that processed payment cards used at the restaurants and front desks of some of our hotels. The malware searched…
AU: Child services breaches foster kids’ privacy at least 58 times: report
Beau Donelly reports: A car was doused in petrol in one of six “significant” cases where children or carers were put in danger as a direct result of the leak-plagued child protection department’s own breaches, a review has uncovered. The state government has put vulnerable children and foster carers “at direct risk of harm” at least 58 times in the…
AU: OAIC accepts undertaking from ARC on Optus customer data breach
Corinne Riechert reports a follow-up to a breach previously noted on this site: The Australian Privacy Commissioner has accepted an enforceable undertaking from ARC Mercantile following a breach of personal customer data at the end of last year, which occurred when an ARC employee posted a spreadsheet of customers owing money to Optus on Freelancer.com. Read more…
MA: SSNs, addresses inadvertently posted on Walpole Police Dept.’s website
WFXT reports: Social security numbers, addresses, phone numbers and other personal information was accidentally posted on Walpole Police Department‘s website. The personal information was part of last week’s dispatch log. The dispatch log contains a record of all incidents officer responded to, and that includes all of the personal information that is redacted from the press…
Data Breaches Lead To Over 1 Billion Records Exposed In The First Half of 2016
Risk Based Security reports: Risk Based Security and RPS Executive Lines are pleased to announce the release of the latest installment of the Data Breach QuickView Report. The MidYear 2016 Report shows that, while the number of data breaches for the year is down approximately 17% compared to the same time last year, the number…