An exclusive from The Guardian: The largest cache of documents to be leaked from within Australia’s asylum seeker detention regime details assaults, sexual assaults and self-harm: More than 2,000 leaked incident reports from Australia’s detention camp for asylum seekers on the remote Pacific island of Nauru – totalling more than 8,000 pages – are published…
Dota2 forums hacked
As seen on LeakedSource.com: Dota2 official forums was hacked on July 10th, 2016 (http://dev.dota2.com). This data set contains 1,923,972 records. Each record contains an email address, ip address, username, user identifier, and one password. Oh, look… the forum runs on vBulletin. Gee, where have we seen something like this before, I wonder….
Woman accused of identity theft, racking up thousands in medical bills
Medical identity theft case: ST. LOUIS COUNTY – A woman was charged with identity theft Monday after police said she used another woman’s personal information to rack up nearly $20,000 in medical bills in 2015. According to charging documents, Lesley Rankin used someone else’s personal and insurance information when she was admitted to DePaul Hospital…
In: IT firm ex-employee booked for data theft
TNN reports: The former employee of an IT firm has been booked for allegedly stealing data from that company and selling it to industry competitors. He was sacked by the firm for misuse of data, and was later found to be using the stolen data for personal benefits. As per the complaint lodged by Deepak…
AOA advises doctors and students to take action to protect their credit
Although the American Optometric Association (AOA) states that they have not had any data security breach, it appears that doctors and students are becoming victims of fraudulent activity, and AOA wants them to take action to protect themselves: AOA is aware of reports that suggest cyberattackers have opened or attempted to open Chase Amazon.com credit accounts…
Ca: Brant County Health Unit says 494 personal records breached
CTV Kitchener reports: An unauthorized person gained access to the immunization records of nearly 500 people, the Brant County Health Unit says. According to the health unit, the recently discovered breach involves the records of 494 people who submitted information on their child’s immunization via the BCHU website between July 2015 and October 2015. Read…