Jameson Cook reports: Secretary of State officials discovered that nearly 14,000 documents containing personal information of drivers license and state identification applications were stolen from two Macomb County offices over the past two years, including one in Chesterfield Township. The documents were stolen in May or June from non-public, secured areas at the North Macomb…
Sony has gained over 3 million new PSN users since hack
Sony Corp. CEO Sir Howard Stringer has confirmed that the electronics giant has raked in an additional three million PlayStation Network accounts since the service was restored following the cyber attacks earlier this year. CNET reports that Stringer dropped the news during a presentation at the IFA electronics show in Berlin yesterday, where he asserted his belief…
Data Breaches Harder to Understand
Brian Martin of the Open Security Foundation and DataLossDB.org project writes: On the off chance you missed any news outlet the last 30 days, an “anti security” movement has been reborn. Started in 1999, theAntisec Movement focused on encouraging security consultants and hackers not to disclose vulnerabilities to vendors. The recent resurgence of this movement has…
Update: Two held in Fine Gael hacking inquiry
Two teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of hacking into the Fine Gael website. The party’s new website was hacked into in January and the details of 2,000 subscribers were stolen. Read more on RTÉ. Previous coverage on DataBreaches.net can be found here.
Email Misdirected in Switch to Gmail
Julia L. Ryan reports: During the transfer of Harvard @college email accounts to new Google hosted accounts, a handful of students received emails from individuals who share their surname, raising privacy concerns for some who chose to switch email systems. Thousands of students have successfully accessed their new Google hosted @college email accounts, and fewer…
Texas Take Down Thursday, Anonymous leak 3GB of Police data
Well its that time of the week again where a HUGE leak gets done and this time its labeled as Texas take-down Thursday, Being carried out by the anonymous hackers this one is for sure to leave the Texas police and American government shocked and ashamed of the lack of security they have on vital…