Well its been coming and known for a few days now that anonymous Australia hacktivist hack obtained up to 40gb of data from a well known ISP, AAPT. Just now they have leaked 3 bits of this data which comes as a very partial leak compared to the main data they are said to have. So far they have…
Anonymous Australian to leak 40gb from AAPT
Over the past few weeks we have watched Australian hacktivist who are not happy about the proposed security laws that may or may not be coming into place been attacking many different Australian websites under the OpAustralia flag as a result. Alot of these sites have so far been Queensland government based with many defacement’s already happening. The have also been…
If at first you don’t succeed: Senator Leahy offers breach notification amendments to cybersecurity bill
Brendan Sasso reports: Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is pushing for an amendment to a cybersecurity bill that would make it a crime for a company to hide a data breach from its customers. Under the legislation, anyone who purposefully conceals a data breach that causes financial damage could face up to five years in prison….
Ca: Pension data of former city workers stolen
CBC News reports: A stolen hard drive containing pension data for about 800 former City of Ottawa employees will likely never be retrieved, according to the company that was handling the information. New York-based Towers Watson notified the city of the breach after the hard drive disappeared from an office in the Philippines. Towers Watson…
Melbourne IT takes heat for Cold Fusion breach
James Hutchinson reports: Melbourne IT has admitted to hosting and operating both the Queensland Government and AAPT servers that suffered breaches this week at the hands of hackers purporting to be from a Anonymous splinter group. The group Ops Australia took credit for defacing nine Queensland Government websites related to tourism, science and economic development and stealing…
CA: ID theft suspects busted in credit card-skimming case
From News10: It continues to happen. Three individuals were arrested Thursday on suspicion of identity theft and burglary after a month-long investigation in which detectives with the Sacramento County sheriff’s hi tech crimes unit uncovered credit/debit card skimming devices, thousands of credit card numbers, hundreds of bogus California identification cards and numerous counterfeit credit cards….