Overview PLEASE CONTACT US IF YOU WERE INVOLVED WITHIN THIS OPERATION AS WE WOULD LIKE TO GET IT UPTO DATE AND CORRECT. Operation Payback was started after AiPlex admitted DDoSing torrent sites, from this the operation went widespread and took down lots of site and had a few leaks of data on the way. Some of the…
Another grain of sand in the data breach dunes
It seems that reports of stolen or lost patient records are everywhere these days. Here’s a small item from the public records page of the Lancaster Eagle Gazette in Pennsylvania on June 9: LANCASTER — Someone stole items from a 1998 Saturn SCI belong to a home health aide parked in the 1200 block of…
(In)security update: Arrests in Sony hacking, plus Acer breach
Levi Sumagaysay writes: Spain has arrested three people in connection with hacking Sony’s PlayStation Network. According to the Wall Street Journal, Spanish police say the three are members of hacker group Anonymous, which has recently claimed responsibility for various attacks on companies such as MasterCard and Visa, as well as Sony. (Although Anonymous has said it was…
UK: Codemasters.com hacked, personal info may have been acquired
Seen at http://m0unds.net/files/breach/codemasters.html via @m0unds: Subject: Important information regarding your account From: “Codemasters” Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:27:25 -0000 To: [email protected] On Friday 3rd June, unauthorised entry was gained to our Codemasters.com website. As soon as the intrusion was detected, we immediately took codemasters.com and associated web services offline in order to prevent any…
UK: Employees who stole T-Mobile customer data made to pay £73,700 for violating Data Protection Act
Two former employees of UK mobile operator T-Mobile who illegally stole and sold select customer data from the company in 2008 have today been ordered to pay a total of £73,700 in fines and confiscation costs as part of a hearing at Chester Crown Court. David Turley and Darren Hames pleaded guilty to offences under…
SC: Laptops Stolen From Elementary School; Thumb Drive May Contain Sensitive Information
Confidential information may have been stolen from students at an Upstate school. Investigators say someone swiped two laptop computers over Memorial Day weekend. A thumb drive on one of those computers may have contained personal information about students. The thefts happened at Ravenel Elementary School in Seneca in the Oconee County School District. A window was popped out,…