The Baltic Course reports: Cyber-crime suspect from Riga Deniss Calovskis has turned to the European Court of Human Rights with a petition against the request from the United States for his extradition, LETA was informed by attorney Saulvedis Varpins. The attorney said that according to announcements made by U.S. officials in the past, cyber-crimes in…
Midwest BankCentre Hacked and Data leaked
A few days ago the @LulzSecWiki twitter account contact me with a leak of data from the Midwest BankCentre (https://www.midwestbankcentre.com). The leak was also announced on social media via the hackers twitter account who have recently been releasing data from various websites and have adopted the well known lulzsec handle. > Midwest BankCentre Data Leak – Via @lulzsecwiki –…
The “we’re just one of many” excuse doesn’t fly here
With all the news about #OpIsrael, it was easy to miss a breach that was reported today involving Kirkwood Community College in Iowa. On March 13, they were hacked, and the hacker had access to 125,000 records from students who had applied online for credit courses between February 2005 and March 5, 2013. The school…
NZ: EQC takes out injunction over privacy breach
Are you free to use data unintentionally disclosed to you in a data breach? Adam Bennett reports that the New Zealand Earthquake Commission (EQC) has gone to court to block the use of data on 98,000 claims erroneously emailed to someone last month: The Earthquake Commission has taken out a court injunction against the insurance…
Millions of S.Korean IDs Leaked to N.Korea
The Chosun Ilbo reports on a major prosecution in South Korea: The Seoul Central Prosecutors’ Office on Sunday charged two South Koreans with cooperating with North Korean hackers in China to run illegal websites and steal the personal information of millions of individuals. Investigators discovered the personal data of 140 million South Koreans on their…
UK support organization hacked, data leaked
Yesterday, I became aware of a breach involving HPTH UK. The breach had been posted on Pastebin by @LulzSecWiki, who headlined it as “HPTH UK Hospital Server Data Leak.” @LulzSecWiki also tweeted a link to the data dump. In a statement with the leaked data, @LulzSecWiki wrote: Greetings friends, welcome to TheLulzBoat. The the world’s leader in…