Yesterday police made a move in on the target they have been seeking for a few weeks now, Christopher Chaney, 35, was arrested without incident yesterday morning at his Jacksonville, Fla., home for allegedly hacking into celebrities’ Google, Apple and Yahoo e-mail accounts between last November and February. Read more: here
AU: First State Superannuation fails to adequately secure online accounts, then threatens the security researcher?
First, let’s start with the breach, as reported by Darren Pauli on SC Magazine: A security researcher was questioned by NSW Police after quietly reporting a massive security gaffe to First State Superannuation that potentially exposed millions of customer accounts. Patrick Webster found he was able to access electronic superannuation notices of any customer by…
Palm Pilot stolen from surgeon's car contained patient information
Another incident added this week to HHS’s breach tool was reported by Jonathan Noel, M.D. of Indiana. I could not find a web site or media coverage for the incident, but did find a substitute/public notice had been published about the breach in Paoli New Republican. The full notice is not available without subscription and login,…
Contrexx.com hacked and administration logins leaked
A well known Content management system provider in the European based market has been hacked and had a dump of administration details leaked online. This comes from Team Dexter and along with the warning that Contrexx.com needs to do something about the level of security on the website and all its customers should think twice about purchasing any licensing…
3,116 NEA Baptist Clinic patients notified after web site hacked
Listed in the most recent batch of updates to HHS’s breach tool was an entry for NEA Baptist Clinic in Jonesboro, Arkansas. A statement on the clinic’s web site, which I found through a Google search and not via a link from their home page, says: NEA Baptist Clinic’s former public website was compromised by…
Pakistan embassy in China website hacked and defaced by Vicky Singh
Recently a crew going by the name of ZHC done a fair few defacings and it has pissed of a bunch of Indians now and they want to get a message out to them to warn them of any further attacks. This is the type of stuff that starts of small but ends up dragging on for years. In…