Ben Grubb reports: Telstra has been hit by a “hacking attack” affecting 35,000 customers, just a week after one of its IT staff told a security conference the telco was reviewing how it secured and stored customer information. The hacking attack occurred on the servers of a third party company that runs Telstra BigPond’s GameArena and Games Shop websites, the telco…
U.S. Office of Personnel Management Hacked & Data Leaked By @k0detec
Yet another American government website has been attacked and had a dump of data leaked via pastehtml. The attack which is on Office of Personnel Management (https://www.opm.gov/) has come from @k0detec who recently attacked Glade County Florida Sheriff’s Department. The Office of Personnel Management leak has been posted on pastehtml and contains what appears to be a…
Glade County Florida Sheriff’s Department Hacked & Data Leaked By @k0detec
Glade County Florida Sheriff’s Department has become the latest police department to be attacked by anonymous hackers. As a result of the attack a leak of minor data has found its way to pastehtml. The leak comes from twitter account @k0detec and the data leak contains admin logins for the departments website gladessheriff.org which at time of publishing…
MilitarySingles.com breach back in the news
It looks like the MilitarySingles.com breach is back in the news. Yes, that would be the hack that they denied happened. The newest round of reports flows from a report by Imperva, dissecting the breach. John E. Dunn of Techworld, ITProPortal, and Anne Saita of ThreatPost cover the report and the risks consumer-created content pose for the…
CT: Waterford woman charged in privacy case
This news story by Judy Benson was published a few weeks ago, but I wanted to mention it here because we’ve seen this type of access problem before: …. In the Swanson case, records for Ruggiero-Swanson, her husband Brian and her 27-year-old son, also named Brian, were accessed by Brian Sr.’s estranged sister, according to documents…
Why The Media 'Can't Handle the Truth' About Accretive Health
There’s generally more than one side to a story, and Michael Klozotsky points out that the media has contributed to what may be unfair attacks on Accretive Health. Worth a read.