Bianca Capazorio reports on a payment processor breach in South Africa that occurred back in August but is first being acknowledged this week by the firm, PayGate: The Payments Association of SA (Pasa) said on Friday that “the card data emanating from these online transactions seems to have been stored in a manner which does…
KIA, Toyota, Azerbaijan Airlines, Pizza hut attacked for #OpLeak
A hacker using the handle @XTnR3v0LT who is apart of the hacker collective xLegion Hackers has been carrying out an cyber attack on many different websites in a operation that has been dubbed #OpLeak and was aiming to leak 50 databases to prove how weak security is but has since moved on to 1000 databases. Some of the most recent leaks…
xL3gi0n hackers take Brazil Government into sights for cyber crime laws
Over recent years cyber crime has become almost the number one threat to many company’s and due to this many governments from around the world are now putting together task forces, new laws and tough sentencing for those accused of cyber crime. A hacker from the hacker collective xL3gion Hackers has contacted us stating they…
Interview with @Maxn3y ( Max Ney) from Turkish Ajan Hacker Group
Over the past month the hacker scene has been fronted by a hacker using the handle Max Ney (@MAxn3y) who is apart of the hacker collective Turkish Ajan(Agent) Hacker Group. In these past few weeks they have targeted high profile company’s like Pepsi, McDonalds, RedCross, domino’s and others. Since then we have had a chance…
Gulf Coast Health Care Services network incident affected 13,000 patients, but what happened?
Gulf Coast Health Care Services in Florida suffered a network compromise on August 17 that reportedly affected 13,000 patients. The incident was reported to HHS as “Theft, UnauthorizedAccess/Disclosure, Hacking/IT Incident”,Network Server. I really wish HHS would refine their response categories. And no, no media coverage to be found at this point and no notice on…
Kentucky neurologist notifies patients after device lost
Alexander J. Tikhtman, M.D. of Kentucky notified HHS that 2,376 patients had information on a device lost on August 15th. Once again, I can find no substitute notice nor any statement on the web site of Baptist Physicians Lexington. Dr. Tikhtman is associated with Baptist Neurology Consultants. If anyone spots one, please let me know…