As 2012 draws to a close, there are a gadzillion things I should be doing. Instead, I’m re-doing some of my blogs and moving them to a more privacy-friendly web hosting service. Hostgator never answered my questions about their privacy policy and their notice to users, so goodbye to them. Within the next few days, DataBreaches.net will…
Six Long Island men charged with using stolen Social Security numbers in three different tax refund fraud schemes
So the U. S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York issued a press release on December 20 describing how 6 men were indicted for their roles in three tax refund fraud schemes. The three schemes resulted in more than 11,000 false income tax returns seeking refunds up to $73 million. According the…
HHS fines hospice $50,000 over laptop stolen from car
I was surprised to read this morning that Hospice of North Idaho had settled charges by HHS over a laptop stolen from an employee’s car in the summer of 2010. I was surprised, in part, because I was not aware of this incident at all as it had not appeared in HHS’s breach tool. Since…
Mobile Technology Company Zensis hacked, thousand of client details leaked
A mobile technology company has been attacked by hacker @GameOverVirus who recently has been on a leaking spree. The breached mobile company is Zensis.com, a mobile technology company that has been creating custom applications since 2003 for some very high profile clients. Zensis has had clients like vodafone and they display partners with Microsoft, Nokia, yahoo and…
Anti Obama site hacked, defaced and data leaked
An Anti obama website www.2012obama.com has come under the sights of hacker Game Over @GameOverVirus who has left the main site with a new index page as well as dumping a load of data. It appears that this is not the first time this website has been breached with Google caches showing it was breached by** **hackers from Morocco in…
Spread Your News Via @YourAnonNews new IRC on voxanon.org #YAN
@YourAnonNews aka #YAN has been a dedicated news outlet for a very long time now, with not only following news on cyber events they have been helping out spreading the word of events across the world that range from war to protests to simple story’s that just need to be heard. @YourAnonNews has become a very well…