Updated with statistics at the bottom. A hacker who uses the handle @s0lar has just announced a leak fo data that comes from the Collage of the main land websites databases (www.com.edu) College of the Mainland was a beckoning vision in the minds of community leaders as far back as the early 1960s. The first…
ID Theft Service Tied to Payday Loan Sites
Brian Krebs reports: A Web site that sells Social Security numbers, bank account information and other sensitive data on millions of Americans appears to be obtaining at least some of its records from a network of hacked or complicit payday loan sites. Usearching.info boasts the “most updated database about USA,” and offers the ability to…
UK: Investigation as foster worker’s laptop containing children’s details is stolen
Rory Reynolds and Ian Swanson report from Scotland: An investigation is under way after a laptop computer containing sensitive details on vulnerable children was stolen from a member of a fostering and adoption panel. Police are probing the theft of the device from the home of an independent consultant who conducts reviews of foster and…
AU: Fat thumbs expose MP’s e-mail and calendars
Alana Schetzer reports that members of Australia’s Parliament got a lesson in using Outlook after what some thought was a “security breach” exposing members’ email and calendars turned out to be self-inflicted harm from user error: Department of Parliamentary Service acting secretary Russell Grove said there was no evidence of hacking and that the issue…
Stolen laptop contained data from Health Care for All and Boston Teacher’s Union
It just takes a moment. On July 17, an independent contractor for Database Designs Associates left his backpack in a relative’s nursing home room when he was asked by staff to step out for a minute. When he returned, the backpack was gone. In it was a laptop containing data from Health Care for All and…
Hack of Red Boat Advisor Resources server containing brokerage account applications
Lincoln Financial Securities Corporation reports that the virtual server of one of their independently-owned financial planning offices, Red Boat Advisor Resources, was accessed some time between January and early April of this year. In their letter dated August 30 to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, LFS’s attorneys write that the server held TIFF images…