Okay, so this may not be a good time to call Comptroller DiNapoli’s office to find out whatever happened to the K-12 data security audits they had told me they would be conducting last year. Ken Lovett reports: State Controller Thomas DiNapoli is taking major heat for the office blunder that led to the Social…
Sun Shine Coast Website Hacked and Defaced by Anonymous for #OpAustralia
If your an Australian or living/staying here you may of heard about the proposed new laws that may allows intelligence agencies to monitor and watch all forms of electronic communications. Well Anonymous hacktivist located within Australia have got angry about this and as a result they have started a all new operation that is aimed right at the Australian government. The Operation today has been attacking…
Court Dismisses Data Breach Claims Against Countrywide – Holmes v. Countrywide
Venkat Balasubramani discusses the decision in Holmes v. Countrywide Financial Corp., et al.: In August 2008, a Countrywide employee engaged in a scheme to steal confidential customer information from Countrywide. An investigation found that the employee gained access to data from 2.4 million loan customers, and sold this information to unknown third parties for the…
Android Forums Breached, 1,000,000+ User Account Details At Risk
In what has so far been a huge week for high profile and large data based hacks another big forum has noticed a breach and come out with an alert for the community that has over 1.3millions users. The site that was effect is adroidforums.com which is a dedicated help forums that belong to Phandroid.com. The…
Bitcoinica breach done by leaked source code results In 40,000+ being stolen
Back in may, well known and trusted bitcoin service Bitcoinica was breached and bitcoins were stolen as a result. Since then the website has claim to shut down and has a "claims" process for those who were effected in the main breach. Well it appears that from that hack others were able to obtain access to…
860+ Sites Defaced By 3CA, 3xp1r3 Cyber Army
3xp1r3 Cyber Army hackers have been busy this week. After making a post to pastebin with the most recent mass deface listing we was surprised to see that it was 860 sites. 3CA is well known for its hacking and defacing of websites and they are one of the few crews who do real main…