Elinor Mills has a round-up of quotes from multiple sources that all suggest that having a data breach generally isn’t fatal to a business – although there are, of course, exceptions. Not surprisingly, my favorite quote is from Adam Shostack: “The reason we’re struggling as an industry is that we cover up the failures,” said…
Turkish Police Site Hacked By Red Hack
content/images/gallery/random3/capture2.png RedHack have been a lot more public in recent weeks and one of the latest attacks is on emniyetyurdu.pol.tr a Turkish based police website which is for "Security General Directorate of Higher Education Student Dormitories." when poorly translated. The hack which has a main page article and redirect to a dropbox hosted page which features a few…
MilitarySingles.com hack exposes over 160,000 users’ information (updated to include ESingles denial of breach)
MilitarySingles.com has apparently been hacked. The hack was announced on Twitter earlier today by Operation Digiturk and a database of 163,792 names, usernames, e-mail addresses, IP addresses, and passwords has been dumped on the Internet. The tweet was accompanied by the hashtags #anonymous #antisec #infosec I don’t know if the site is aware of the hack and eSingles Inc.’s…
UK: Data loss by North East councils is revealed
Andrew Glover reports: Widespread personal data loss by North East councils has put thousands of people at risk of identity fraud. Lost laptops, missing memory sticks and bundles of post sent to wrong addresses have put delicate private details in the wrong hands. A Freedom of Information Act request revealed a catalogue of potentially dangerous…
Armenian Power Member and Three Armenian Power Associates Convicted in Los Angeles for Roles in Identity Theft Ring
After a five week trial, four defendants have been convicted for their roles in one of the largest bank fraud and identity theft schemes in California history, with dozens of victims in four states and millions of dollars in losses. The convictions were announced by Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s…
CVS Caremark mailing error exposes prescription information
Robert Weisman reports in The Boston Globe: CVS Caremark Corp. said Friday that it mistakenly sent letters to about 3,500 Tufts Health Plan members, giving them personal information about the medical conditions and medications of other members enrolled in a supplemental Medicare plan managed by Tufts. The mistake was due to an unspecified “programming error,”…