In the past year, this site has reported on a number of breaches involving voter data: the massive database with 191 million U.S. voters’ data that Chris Vickery uncovered, a second smaller database he uncovered of U.S. voters’ data that included 19 million profiles, a breach involving more than 50 million Turkish citizens, one involving 55 million…
Qatar National Bank confirms limited hack, reassures customers
I’ve been keeping an eye out to see if the Qatar National Bank would confirm claims that they had been hacked. Now they have. From their web site: Doha, 1 May, 2016 – QNB Group’s Risk Team monitored abnormal activity in our system environment, this was immediately communicated to relevant authorities. We also took immediate steps…
Settlement reached in lawsuit after laptop stolen from Edmonton Medicentre
Bill Mah reports that a lawsuit filed after a 2013 Medicentres breach has settled. The incident involved a laptop with information on 620,000 Albertans being stolen from the clinic. The laptop belonged to an employee of their IT consultant, AbleIT Inc. The Privacy Commissioner would later rule that the clinic had failed to adequately protect their…
Two more colleges report compromise of employee W-2 info
Two more colleges have reported breaches involving employee W-2 data. I’m late picking the first one up, but it seems Allegheny College employees reported problems when filing taxes. On April 14, Angela Mauroni reported that at least 74 non-student employees of the Pennsylvania college had reported such problems. The college believes the information was accessed through the hacking…
Movimiento Ciudadanos continues to claim it was hacked despite evidence of leak
What Mexican political party Movimiento Ciudadanos is saying in the wake of a massive data leak is just so inconsistent with available evidence that DataBreaches.net will continue to try explain to the public what the available evidence actually shows. As part of efforts to properly inform the Mexican public about a massive leak involving their information, this site…
UK: Anger and resignations after Welwyn Hatfield Council security breach
Some people take the security of their email addresses very seriously. Alex Lewis reports: An official at Welwyn Hatfield Council sent a routine email to members of the Borough Panel, a formal consultation group with 510 members, but forgot to “blind copy” it. Consequently, everybody receiving the message, about a draft council tax support scheme…