Mark Albert reports: In a breach of patient privacy, Allina Hospitals & Clinics included information on eight people – the fact that they are a patient, their email address, and the name of the company they worked for – in a mass email that went to a quarter of a million patients in Minnesota and…
Prosecutors: Hacker stole Seattleites’ credit card info for drug money
Levi Pullkinen reports: A Seattle grand jury has indicted a Maryland man accused of hacking into the credit card systems of several Seattle businesses and using stolen funds to fuel his heroin addiction. Currently in inpatient treatment for drug addition, 20-year-old Christopher A. Schroebel is facing federal hacking charges related to a string of high-tech…
China tightens micro blogging rules, how will they control it
China, it has the worlds largest internet population, as well as enforce’s the worlds most strict internet agreement between anyone who use’s any type of service that is located in china. China today announced new rules for micro bloggers, that they must use their real names. Now this isnt such a big deal but really…
Dump of accounts from biclopsgames.com
Yet another small gamers personal site has become victim to hacks and had a dump of information leaked onto pastebin. This one comes from biclopsgames.com and contains usernames, emails and passwords which are encrypted. https://pastebin.com/L6YbD136
(update) Michaels Stores Still PINned beneath Payment Card Skimming Lawsuit
Ah, I missed a ruling. Thankfully, Brendon Tavelli didn’t. He writes: In May 2011, Michaels Stores reported that “skimmers” using modified PIN pad devices in eighty Michaels stores across twenty states had gained unauthorized access to customers’ debit and credit card information. Not a pretty picture for Michaels. Lawsuits soon splattered on the specialty arts…
big dump of Government website logins
content/images/gallery/random2/https-www-deporte-gob_-mx-pastebin-com_.png Well the many governments seem to have not learnt from the past couple of months and many of the sites and servers are still accessible and from that they have been hacked and each been singly dumped on to paste bin. The attack comes from LlulzSec_Guatemala and has been carried out on the following sites over the past week…