Recently Camden New Journal, found a exploitable part of the Camden council website that allowed them to download licensing information from the councils servers. The information is said to of contained enough data for people to start identity fraud and cause real trouble for anyone who’s information was leaked. The breach has started up a probe…
Australian Telcom Giant, Telstra investigated over data breach
TELSTRA faces the wrath of the Federal Privacy Commissioner after leaving customer details of potentially millions of customers exposed on the web including, reportedly, usernames and passwords. The details were exposed in a search page used by Telstra customer service agents that was left unprotected and openly accessible on the web. The page entitled "Telstra…
PA: Hackers Steal Washington Co. Customers’ Credit Card Info
The Secret Service is investigating after several customers of a Washington County restaurant had their credit card information stolen by hackers from overseas. Beginning Dec. 4, Jumpers Junction customers began reporting their credit card information as being stolen. Investigators said each person had recently paid for their food with a credit card at the restaurant….
Huge amount of email accounts from past 24hrs
From what appears to be some sort of phishing results or key logger results has resulted in thousands of accounts again being leaked on to pastebin. The accounts come from various places and all contain clear text passwords and comes in two parts. Be sure to check with CTRL+F for quick search in case you was silly enough to get…
UK: Patient data-sharing may not take account of anonymisation concerns
Earlier this week the Government announced proposals (40-page / 2.1MB PDF) to change the NHS Constitution so that information stored about patients would be automatically shared with life sciences researchers via a new anonymised database unless patients elect for their details not to be included. While welcomed by the life sciences industry as a boost to research,…
Breaches without details (updated)
When HHS’s breach tool reveals a breach I was not already aware of, I try to investigate or find media sources. Sometimes, despite my efforts, I can find nothing online to clarify a breach report. In some cases, I write to the organizations, who may – or may not – answer. Here are some breaches…