On July 12, the hacker known as “The Dark Overlord” (TDO) offered the source code, software signing keys, and customer license database for a firm that develops and markets software that among other things, implements the HL7 standards. The entity was not named in the listing on TheRealDeal Market. As I reported on July 12, I was…
Noted while reading news…
Reuters reports Scottrade won dismissal of the class action lawsuit against it over the breach disclosed last year. Some of the previous coverage on the breach and lawsuit can be found on my site, here. *** Mille Lacs County Times reports that the county and former child support investigator Mikki Jo Peterick have agreed to a…
KR: Credit card companies fined over customer data protection failures
For the past few years, I’ve covered the consequences Kookmin, NongHyup, and Lotte Card have faced after cardholders’ information was stolen by an contractor’s employee over an 18-month period from 2012 to 2013. I continue to be impressed that even though some of the fines or consequences haven’t been huge by our standards, there have been consequences to both the…
Shadi.com hacked and data dumped, but do they even know?
From LeakedSource: Shortly after the hack of MuslimMatch.com, Shadi.com another dating site was hacked around July 10th, 2016. LeakedSource has obtained and added a copy of this data to its ever-growing searchable repository of leaked data. This data set contains 2,035,020 records. Each record contains an email address and one password. Passwords were stored with no…
Suspected Right Sector Hackers Breach Polish Ministry, Demand $50,000
Sputnik News reports: A group of hackers, who portray themselves as members of the Right Sector, an Ukrainian nationalist organization, outlawed in Russia, carried out a cyberattack on the Polish Defense Ministry database and demanded Warsaw to pay $50,000 for the database not to be made public, local media reported on Thursday citing Twitter account of the group. According to Gazeta Wyborcza, the hackers had released a…
Giving new meaning to “School’s Out!”
36 New Zealand schools have had their domain names hacked and put up for sale online for exploitation by spammers. Listen to the story on RadioNZ. I guess this could have been worse in terms of what else could have been stolen?