I hate it when we only find out about data breaches from lawsuits, but at least we find out. Marlene Kennedy of Courthouse News reports: Five Guys burger joints failed to safeguard their data, giving hackers access to the accounts of debit-card-paying customers, a bank claims in court. Trustco Bank says the hackers racked up…
OH: Legislation proposal would require online security breaches to be reported
Jim Siegel reports that Rep. John Patrick Carney is planning to introduce a law requiring state agencies, businesses, and institutions to report any database security breach to the Ohio attorney general’s office if any Ohio resident’s personal information was accessed. Notification would have to be made within 40 days of discovery of a breach. Ohio…
NHS Trust fined £325,000 following data breach; Trust “frankly surprised” at fine and intends to appeal
Back in January, I noted that the ICO was preparing to levy a huge fine on Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust after hard drives with patient data were stolen and put up for sale on eBay. We later learned that the thief was an employee of a contractor. The possibility of the fine was revealed by the…
NHS Trust fined £325,000 following data breach; Trust "frankly surprised" at fine and intends to appeal
Back in January, I noted that the ICO was preparing to levy a huge fine on Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust after hard drives with patient data were stolen and put up for sale on eBay. We later learned that the thief was an employee of a contractor. The possibility of the fine…
Montreal F1 ticket-holders Details Leaked After Recent Anonymous Hack
content/images/gallery/random3/198496filecanadagp.png Well this was bound to happen, few weeks ago we seen the f1 come under fire for one of the first times by hackers and now they have been hit yet again leaving 131 people who purchased tickets in Montreal exposed. The leak comes from anonymous hacktivist and was published via pastehtml with the following message which is…
United States Navy Hacked, 170 Accounts Leaked by .c0mrade
The United states government and more so the navy have become targets to hackers yet again, this time the target has been the main navy website (https://www.navy.mil) and is being claimed by .c0mrade, the same hacker who has recent leaked data from habbo.com.br. The leak from the navy server contains a bit of mixed information as…