Anna Leach reports: Just days before the start of National Identity Fraud Prevention Week on Monday, the Prime Minister’s chief policy advisor Oliver Letwin has been snapped binning what appear to be documents containing personal information in a public park. The discarded documents are said to include the addresses of Letwin’s constituents in West Dorset,…
Barinas State, Venezuela, government hacked and accounts dumped by @SwichSmoke
For the past few months @SwichSmoke has been attacking the Venezuela government with a fair bit of data dumped already and many websites hacked. Today there has been another dump of sites coming from the state "Barinas" and the government for that state. in the release note which is in Spanish states that the original password is 123456, which is fairly lame for…
SEC guidance about coming clean about data breaches
Emma Woollacott reports: The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered companies to disclose security breaches, following a year in which several organizations have been criticized for revealing details late, if at all. “Cyber incidents may result in losses from asserted and unasserted claims, including those related to warranties, breach of contract, product recall and…
Credit card data stolen from Chili’s restaurant at Yokosuka
Matt Burke and Trevor Andersen report: Hackers breached a computer server at Chili’s Grill & Bar Restaurant at Yokosuka Naval Base, stealing credit card information and running up erroneous charges, according to Navy officials. “We’ve received about 17 complaints so far,” base spokeswoman Michelle Stewart said Thursday. She added that officials don’t yet know when…
Social Security kept silent about private data breach
Thomas Hargrove writes: The Social Security Administration has failed to inform tens of thousands of Americans that it accidentally released their names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers in an electronic database widely used by U.S. business groups. The federal agency has kept silent about a potentially harmful security breach of the personal data…
Update: Lawsuit against Keystone and Amerihealth remanded to state court
Via Courthouse News, a potential class action lawsuit against Keystone Mercy Health Plan and Amerihealth Mercy Health Plan over a data breach last year has been sent back to state court – over the arguments of the insurers being sued.