Chris Ziegler reports: The individual or team claiming responsibility for SnapchatDB has responded to The Verge‘s requests for comment the morning after the database went online, containing a leaked collection of some 4.6 million apparent Snapchat usernames and partial phone numbers. “Our motivation behind the release was to raise the public awareness around the issue, and also put…
Hacker group targets Skype social media accounts
John Ribeiro reports: Skype said its social media properties were targeted, with a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army appearing to claim credit for the hacks. “You may have noticed our social media properties were targeted today,” Skype said in a Twitter message late Wednesday. “No user info was compromised. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.” Read…
Financial Services Online Australia Hacked, Affiliates Credentials Leaked
Earlier today Pakiz Cyber Squad announced a 14 part leak of data from Financial Services Online Australia (https://www.financialservicesonline.com.au). The announcement was made on Facebook and the data has been uploaded to pastebin, mostly as private pastes. The format of the dump doesn’t appear to be a typical sql injection but more so a text dump of…
This was all too predictable…
Remember how I posted about how some frustrated researchers at Gibson Security had gone public with a SnapChat vulnerability that the firm allegedly hadn’t addressed? Well, now it seems 4.6 million SnapChat users’usernames and phone numbers have been leaked.
Accretive Health Settles FTC Charges That It Failed to Adequately Protect Consumers’ Personal Information
From the FTC, a follow-up on a breach that was first disclosed in September 2011, and that I’ve covered a number of times on PHIprivacy.net (see these articles). Regular readers may recall that Accretive was also sued by Minnesota’s Attorney General. That suit settled for $2.5 million in July 2012. Accretive Health, Inc., a company that…
Riverside Health System notifies 919 patients after employee improperly accessed their information
I hope this is the last breach of PHI I’ll have to report in 2013, but since there’s still 5 hours to go, who knows? WAVY in Newport News, Virginia reports: A local hospital is offering free credit monitoring after officials say an employee inappropriately accessed patients’ medical records. According to Peter Glagola, Director of…