Ben Keith reports that one of the entities affected by a recent TeamGhostShell hack was Ohio State College of Dentistry. Okay, but here’s the thing: should the college have notified those whose names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and passwords were acquired and dumped on the Internet? You might think “yes,” but Ohio state law…
Follow-up: Telstra cops first TCP warning for privacy breach
Josh Taylor reports: The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has issued Telstra a direction to comply with the privacy clause in the Telecommunications Consumer Protection (TCP) code, following a 2011 privacy breach that left the details of 734,000 broadband customers vulnerable. In December last year, Telstra inadvertently exposed customer information online after one of…
OH: Neighbors Worried About Identity Theft After Thousands Of Documents Dumped On Driveway
From 10TV: Residents living in a northeast Columbus neighborhood said that they are concerned after thousands of documents were dumped at the end of a driveway overnight. Residents said that they were worried about identity theft after people’s personal information was found in the pile in the driveway of a GreenStone Homes model home in…
Telecom Giant Orange Hacked, Data leaked by #NullCrew
Null crew have had a quite few weeks after they made headlines for some of the other recent attacks they had done. Today they have released data from an attack on one of France’s largest telecommunication companies, Orange (orange.co.uk). Orange is a French multinationaltelecommunications corporation and represents the flagship brand of the France Telecom group. It is a global provider for mobile phone, landline, Internet, mobile internet, and IP television services,…
NL: Groene Hart Ziekenhuis (Green Heart Hospital) leaking medical records
I hate relying on Google Translate, but this article seems to detail a very serious web leak involving a hospital in the Netherlands, Groene Hart Ziekenhuis. It seems the hospital used an outside provider who didn’t adequately secure the data and an ethical hacker was able to access patient records via FTP. Patient records going back to…
200+ Sites attacked by c0delist
Anonymously submitted article: International hacker ‘c0delist’ took down at least 200+ Websites this morning over proposed privacy laws. The alleged hacker ‘c0delist’ has warned Media ‘He will continue to take attacks on these websites". The alleged attacks started from 3:30AM Thursday and Finished 10:30AM Thursday. Following websites such as; sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au regions.qld.gov.au sd.qld.gov.au dtrdi.qld.gov.au science.qld.gov.au createitmakeitliveit.qld.gov smartawards.qld.gov tourism.industry.qld.gov.au workliveplay.qld.gov.au…