Chris Dyches reports: School officials say an online security breach has hit a Charlotte college campus and they are still trying to figure out how much information was potentially risked. According to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the breach hit the UNC-Charlotte campus and put information for students and staff at risk, they…
WI: Dozens of Weather Shield employees victims of identity fraud
Megan Wiebold reports: Dozens of employees of a Rusk County business say they’ve been victims of identity theft. The sheriff’s department says current and former Weather Shield employees have tried to file their tax returns, only to learn someone else, who they didn’t know, already had filed under their name. […] This isn’t the first…
NYC: Confidential patient records found in the open
Sandra E. García reports: As some members of the ARC XVI Fort Washington Heights Senior Center made their way to the center this past Thurs., Feb. 9th for breakfast, they walked past a patch of sidewalk covered in white. But the previous night’s snowfall was not the culprit. Instead, confidential patient records from the Doshi…
CA: St. Joseph Health notifies almost 32,000 patients that records were exposed in search engines for one year (updated)
Dan Verel reports: St. Joseph Health System has alerted more than 10,000 patients in Santa Rosa, Petaluma and Napa that their personal health information records may have been searchable on the Internet. Notices of the possible security breach were sent on Monday to 6,235 patients from Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, two from Petaluma Valley Hospital…
Anonymous leak 2x teaser military file in the name of #antisec
content/images/gallery/antisec12/capture.png It would seem that anonymous is soon to release another dump of information from the American military that will no doubt stir up some troubles. So far they have released 2 documents and the others are not far away. The leaks have been announced from the @anonymousIRC twitter account and come in the form of pdf files. content/images/gallery/antisec12/capture.png content/images/gallery/antisec12/capture.png…
Hacker Fail Root Arrested and Computers Seized
A hacker who use’s the handle @FailRooT has said to of been arrested and had computers seized as part of a investigation into the hacking by the team they ran called @MetalSoftTeam. Metal Soft Team has been around for some time now and have made a name for themselves as defacers, hacking sites and leaving them with…