Corporate disclosures of data breaches involving U.S. consumers’ personal information may fall by 50 percent under legislation before Congress. House and Senate lawmakers have introduced at least five data-security bills this year requiring businesses to notify customers of intrusions if there is a “reasonable risk” that personal data including credit-card and Social Security numbers may…
New River Health Association breach highlights a source of confusion in HHS breach tool
I love HHS’s breach tool, but it remains a source of frustration. Consider this newly added entry: “New River Health Association ,WV,,950,4/1/2011,Unauthorized Access/Disclosure,Paper,,” We know who, we know how many, we know when, but we don’t know what data types were involved, and for those who try to analyze breach data, there’s a big difference…
Stolen SilverPop laptop results in notifications
The name “SilverPop” may not seem familiar to some readers of this blog, but if you also read DataBreaches.net, you’ll recognize it as the name of an e-mail marketing service that got hacked a while back. As a consequence, a number of its clients wound up having to notify their customers that their email addresses had been…
800+ emails and passwords dumped on pastebin
Just a short quick one, came across this leak that was dumped about an hour ago, leak contains emails/passwords, not sure how genuine they are but if they are real then 800+people have a problem they need to fix asap. Leak comes from twitter user @unklog and has a note saying they 99% from the…
@CMDL1NE breaches 11 more sites
@CMDL1NE has been on a really big streak of hacking lately, and as we have said before they have a very different style of leaking the data, as u will see. No set types of sites im guessing just random ones again, and yeah as always only the DB have been leaked. Todays sites are: Great Offshore https://greatoffshore.com/…
29 sites hacked by STK
Just came across a decent amount of sites, 29 to be correct, that have been hacked and had some details leaked online, the details range from minor DB details to plain text emails/passwords to hashed passwords/emails. These come from a hacker calling themselves STK and have been leaked onto pastebin. The sites range from boat…