Navy Times reports: The private information of more than 200,000 current and former Navy personnel was compromised in June when hackers broke into the Navy’s Smart Web Move Internet site, an application used to arrange household moves on official orders that was subsequently suspended, Naval Supply Systems Command confirmed Wednesday. The compromised database stored 11…
Cabinet for Health and Family Services Notifies Clients of Potential HIPAA Breach
Press release from the Kentucky (state) Cabinet for Health and Family Services: The Cabinet for Health and Family Services is informing approximately 2,500 clients by letter of a possible employee e-mail account breach that may have resulted in the unintentional release of information held by the Cabinet’s Department for Community Based Services (DCBS). In July,…
NY: Women’s claim holds City of Newburgh liable for data breach
Doyle Murphy reports: Two women claim the City of Newburgh failed to monitor a Newburgh detective who is accused of misusing a police database to run unauthorized background checks on people, including his former girlfriends. The women, identified as “Jane Doe I” and “Jane Doe II” in a notice of claim, say the city knew…
Hackers Leak Thousands of Passwords From Large Private BitTorrent Tracker
Enigmax writes: In an unprecedented data breach, tens of thousands of usernames and passwords from large private BitTorrent tracker RevTT have been leaked onto the Internet. The attackers, who call themselves Afghanistan Hackers, leaked the user/pass combinations via The Pirate Bay. The initial response from RevTT was to censor all discussion of the data breach,…
Hearing today in 9th Circuit tackles DNA privacy (updated)
Rebecca Jeschke of EFF writes: Wednesday at 10 am, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is set to hear oral argument in Haskell v. Harris, examining crucial questions of DNA privacy. If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, this is a unique opportunity to hear debate over how your genetic information can be collected, stored,…
Lince Toyota Hacked 5,632 Personal Details Leaked
A Toyota group dealership Lince Toyota (lincetoyota.com) has been hacked and had a large amount of data leaked from its database. The attack which comes from xL3gi0n hacker using the handle Xc0unt3r was uploaded to pastebin in two parts and total count of accounts found is 5.632. The attack comes with no real message or reason beside the site was…