In June, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust were hit with a £325,000 monetary penalty for a data protection breach. Rebecca Todd reports that they ultimately paid £260,000, a 20% “savings” for prompt payment that is offered to those being fined.
Colombian Military websites hacked, accounts leaked
updated: editing for typos. Colombian government is no stranger to cyber attacks with it being one of the many country’s that gets a lot of attention from hackers around the world. The Colombian military has now become a target to a hacker who uses the handle @ur0b0r0x. The leak has been announced on twitter and contains leaked account credentials from five different sub…
Syria Virtual University Hacked, Student Logins leaked
Hacker collective Gsec aka Grey Security has been absent from the scene over the past few weeks only to return with a dump of information from Syria Virtual University (https://www.svuonline.org). The attack has been announced via twitter on the main @gsec_ account with a link to leaked information posted on pastebin. Grey Security @gsec_ Intelligent Student…
MeTV Hacked, Affiliates credentials leaked
A popular TV broadcasting network MeTV (https://metvnetwork.com/) has been hacked by a hacker we follow often @DARWINARE who recently has attacked and leaked data from UNSW, Amazon.uk and other high profile sites. > Me-TV (stylized as MeTV, and a backronymfor its on-air slogan "Memorable Entertainment Television") is an American broadcasttelevision network owned by Weigel Broadcasting and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[1] that airs classic televisionsitcoms, dramas and classic commercials…
Dreamhost Breached, Server & client information leaked
A pastebin user using the handle Syst3mswt who is apart of warriors team SWT has posted a a dump of server information which appears to come from the well known and popular web hosting service Dream Host (https://www.dreamhost.com). > DreamHost is a Los Angeles-based web hosting provider and domain name registrar. It is the web hosting and cloud computing business owned byNew Dream…
Curb your enthusiasm!
Maybe one of the mantras of data protection should be “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” In 2009, Yankees fans enthusiastically threw papers out of the window during the team’s World Series celebratory parade through the Canyon of Heroes. The unshredded papers included files from A.L. Sarroff, Goldman Sachs, and the Bronx Supreme Court, as well as medical test…