CBC News reports: Edmonton Public School District did not follow its own policy in the loss of memory stick containing personal information of more than 7,500 employees, says the Alberta privacy commissioner. An investigation by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner found information on the USB memory stick was no protected by a…
MA: Retailer says it could have been hit by card info breach
Trevor Jones reports: Ward’s Nursery & Garden Center may be one of the businesses at the center of a security breach resulting in fraudulent purchases this month made with dozens of locals’ credit and debit cards. Gregory Ward, co-owner of the South Main Street store, said his company was contacted by a bank regarding the…
Veterans’ personal information accidentally posted on Ancestry.com
Leo Shane III reports: More than 2,200 veterans had their personal information accidentally posted on the genealogy website Ancestry.com last year, a move that could potentially expose them to identify theft crimes. Officials from the Department of Veterans Affairs said all of the veterans affected by the mistake will receive free credit monitoring services to…
DreamHost forces Shell/FTP password reset following “security issue”
From DreamHost’s status blog: Last night we detected some unauthorized activity within one of our databases. While we don’t have evidence that customer passwords were taken at this time, we’re forcing a change out of caution. Please login to our web panel and change any passwords you may have with us. We’ll keep this post…
WV: City computers possibly hacked
Beth Sergent reports: The City of Point Pleasant may’ve been hacked. According to a press release from Mayor Brian Billings on Friday morning, the City of Point Pleasant was notified from an outside agency of a potential security breach of its computer system. Billings’ statement said the apparent breach was originated from an outside source….
Thousands of Dumped Email Accounts
Ok this is most likely the last of this type of post, soon we will have a new system up for email dump alerts. Over the past 24hrs we have come across thousands and thousands of accounts and hacked websites, many resulting from the on going cyber war and many just random. Well these are…