Another case where someone in law enforcement hacked and misused a law enforcement database for personal reasons? The chief of police is the last person you expect to be arrested, but on Tuesday deputies from the Jo Daviess Sheriff’s Department took Stockton Police Chief Robert Beeter into custody. Beeter’s charges of 16 counts of identity theft…
Are TerraCom and YourTel the poster children for how NOT to respond to a breach?
Isaac Wolf reports: A month ago, two phone carriers participating in a federal benefit program were alerted that sensitive customer records, including Social Security numbers and bank-account records, were freely posted online. Now, Oklahoma-based TerraCom Inc. and affiliate YourTel America Inc. — the companies that collected the records — say they don’t plan to notify…
Sonoma Valley Hospital notifies patients whose information was exposed on the Internet
Sonoma Valley Hospital has disclosed that patient information was exposed on the Internet due to an employee error. The Sonoma Valley Sun reports the breach occurred on February 14, 2013, and involved 1,350 surgery patients’ names, dates of service, procedure, surgeon, hospital charges, and name of insurance company. The hospital did not learn of the breach…
Pakistan Intelligence Hacked Over 70,000 Personal Details Leaked by @G3NTbl4ck
A hacker who uses the handle @G3NTbl4ck has managed to breach a Pakistani Job Site which is titled Pakistan Intelligence (https://www.pakistanintelligence.com). The breach has happened a few days ago with first what was s simple defacement but now it turns out over 2GB of personal details from people registered and entered in to the sites data base…
Jackson Health System notifies 1,407 patients of missing records
Statement from Jackson Health System in Florida: Jackson Health System has conducted an internal investigation regarding several boxes of medical records that are unaccounted for and/or are missing from Jackson Health System Health Information Management (HIM) department. Those 1,407 patients whose personal information was accessed have been notified and offered free credit card fraud protection….
Xbox Live Breach Claim By @Reckz0r – Proven as Fake –
PLEASE READ UPDATES THIS IS VERY FALSE AND HAS BEEN PROVEN TO BE SO Today has been interesting to say the least, hacker @reckz0r has announced that they have gained access to Xbox Live servers and as a result credentials have been leaked. The announcement came a few hours ago from the hackers twitter account…