Thanks to Joe Howie of BeyondRecognition.net for alerting me to what appears to be a very long-running, inadequately remedied breach that has exposed – and may be continuing to expose – the Social Security numbers and other personal information of thousands of people. I am posting this with some hesitation, as the data may still…
And so it begins… attorneys general investigating LivingSocial.com breach
Attorney General George Jepsen of CT and Attorney General Douglas Gansler of Maryland have written to LivingSocial to request more information on their recent breach and how it may impact consumers. Their actions were announced in a press release yesterday. The Attorneys General have asked the company to provide a detailed timeline of the incident,…
4.2 GB of Emails leaked from Italian Politicians by Anonymous
Anonymous hacktivist have today announced and leaked over 4 gigabyte of data from some Italian Politicians. The announcement first came from a simple pastebin post on the 24th of April titled "ANONYMOUS – MOVEMENT 5 STARS LEAK" which was a press release and a sample of what is to come. The leak has now been upload to well…
Update to the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic breach
Back in February, I noted that the FBI had been called in to investigate a breach involving the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic. A number of those who signed up for the event had reported credit card fraud. Now lawyers for Iron Horse Bicycle Classic have reported the breach to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office….
Belgian Privacy Commission refers data breach case to Public Prosecutor
On April 29, 2013, the Belgian Privacy Commission announced that it referred a data breach case involving The National Belgian Railway Company to the Brussels Public Prosecutor. The data breach, which occurred in December 2012, resulted in the 1.46 million sets of customer data being made publicly available online. The Privacy Commission investigated the case…
Washington hospital hit by $1.03 million cyberheist
Regular readers may recall the frustration I reported when calls to Uniontown Hospital to alert them to a security breach went unanswered. I’m not the only one who can’t get a response when a response might be in the entity’s best interests. Consider this report by security blogger Brian Krebs: Organized hackers in Ukraine and…