Gamers, you have been hit again, a nintendio site has had a small amount of users leaked from its database. the site m-europe.com was founded in 1998 and started as n64 europe, anyways the leak dat acontains plain text passwords, forum name and email. Note from release: Shit, V0iD is back! Yup, this time with some…
(update) Travelodge blames ‘vindictive individual’ for email database breach
John Leyden has a follow-up on an e-mail hack The Register initially revealed in June and that I covered on this blog. Travelodge UK’s explanation doesn’t fully answer my questions, but here’s part of it: This enquiry has thoroughly examined our own IT infrastructures and databases and those belonging to our suppliers as well. The…
View one year of Medical Identity Theft
The World Privacy Forum has constructed an interactive map that highlights the location of all medical ID theft complaints collected from 2008- Feb. 12, 2009 by the Federal Trade Commission.
Sonia Gandhi’s health can’t be a state secret. It’s not about privacy
R Jagannathan writes: There are only questions, and no answers so far, on Sonia Gandhi’s illness that required a surgery. One, how can the nation’s most powerful political leader, virtual chief executive of the ruling party, not let us know that there was something for us to be concerned about? Two, how is it that…
Press Release from Freedom fights and the Green party hacked
@ForFreed0m has released a press release and dump of info from the Green Party in name of #antisec. PR: To every man, woman & child… We want an end to the glamorization of negativity in the media. We want an end to status symbols dictating our worth as individuals. We want a meaningful and free universal…
UK: Thousands of tenants’ details, including 800 bank account numbers, found on memory stick left in a London pub
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Two London housing bodies breached the Data Protection Act after details relating to thousands of their tenants were discovered on an unencrypted memory stick left in a pub, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The memory stick was handed in to the police and safely retrieved at a later…