Zappos a division of Amazon got Hacked

Zappos a division of Amazon got Hacked A notification mail from Zappos is circulating in Customers that a division of Amazon "Zappos.com" got Hacked by Unknown Hackers. Notification mail indicated that names, email addresses, mailing addresses, and the last four digits of customer's social securi...

400000 Israeli Credit Cards & Information Leaked by Saudi Arabia Hackers

400000 Israeli Credit Cards & Information Leaked by Saudi Arabia Hackers Hacker named "0xOmar" from group-xp, largest Wahhabi hacker group of Saudi Arabia claim to Hack lot of Israeli servers, lot of information about Israeli people including their name, address, city, zipcode, Social Security...

4.9 million Tricare patients data exposed in data breach

4.9 million Tricare patients data exposed in data breach About 4.9 million patients treated in San Antonio area military treatment facilities since 1992 have been affected by a health information breach involving the theft of backup tapes for electronic health records, federal officials say. Some...

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hacked - 75,000 social security numbers exposed

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hacked - 75,000 social security numbers exposed University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was the target. Malicious code was discovered on a document management database server. The university contacted law enforcement and after a month-long investigation realized that t...

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hacked - 75,000 social security numbers exposed

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hacked - 75,000 social security numbers exposed University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was the target. Malicious code was discovered on a document management database server. The university contacted law enforcement and after a month-long investigation realized that t...

Anonymous, LulzSec Dump 10 Gigs of Sensitive Law Enforcement Data

Hacker collectives, LulzSec and Anonymous claim to have compromised the servers of the Missouri Sheriff’s Association, posting some 10GB of sensitive data online. According to a statement posted online, the leaked information includes more than 300 email accounts from some 56 law enforcement...

7000 law enforcement officers details leaked by Anonymous Hackers

7000 law enforcement officers details leaked by Anonymous Hackers AntiSec and Anonymous Hackers announced via Twitter that they absconded with up to 10 Giga Bytes of confidential information, including protected witnesses. They have posted more than 7,000 law enforcement officials' private...

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Breach Loses Information of 34,000

Retail brokerage Morgan Stanley Smith Barney MSSB has notified 34,000 investment clients that some of their data has been lost, including their names, addresses, social security numbers, tax identification numbers and investment income from 2010, according to a report on the Dow Jones newswires...

FTC Settles Charges Against Two Companies

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday settled charges against two companies, Ceridian Corporation and Lookout Services, Inc., provided they implement an ample information security program and agree to have audits performed on their company every other year for 20 years. Despite guaranteein...

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Anonymous attacks US security company !

HBGary chief Aaron Barr's Twitter account hijacked and personal details leaked in revenge for infiltration of hacking collective The loose hacker collective Anonymous says it has taken revenge on aUS security company whose principal claimed to have penetrated the group and identified some of its...

Thousands of Social Security Numbers Stolen in New York Data Breach

Thousands of Social Security numbers have been stolen from the computers of a New York state agency. The Social Security Administration in New York City reports that a subcontractor, who was working for the Office of Temporary Disability Assistance on computer infrastructure upgrades, illegally...

California Bill Ups the Ante on Breach Notifications

The new bill requires that the company include the type of personal information exposed in the breach; the date or estimated date of the breach; a general description of the incident itself; and toll-free numbers and addresses for credit reporting agencies if the breach included social security...

27K Employee Records Hacked at Ceridian

A hacker attack at payroll processing firm Ceridian Corp. has potentially revealed the names, Social Security numbers, and, in some cases, the birth dates and bank accounts of 27,000 employees working at 1,900 companies nationwide. Read the full article. StarTribune...

80K Records' Breached in Iowa Gaming Hack

Around 80,000 Iowa employee names, birth dates and social security numbers have been exposed after an Iowa Gaming Commission server was hacked. Read the full article. Secure Computing...

SSNs Staying on U.S. Military IDs For Now

The Defense Department will not meet its end-of-the-year deadline for removing Social Security numbers from military ID cards as they are issued or renewed, the Pentagon has confirmed. Read the full article. Stars & Stripes...

HealthNet Data Breach Affects 1.5 Mil Customers

Health Net Inc. announced Wednesday that it is investigating a healthcare data security breach that resulted in the loss of patient data, affecting 1.5 million customers. The healthcare provider said the lost files, a mixture of medical data, Social Security numbers and other personally...

Connecticut Investigates Blue Cross Blue Shield Data Breach

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating Blue Cross Blue Shield’s loss of confidential information, including tax identification and Social Security numbers, for 800,000 healthcare providers nationwide. The attorney general is also seeking additional identity theft...

Who decides what health data is sensitive?

The massive UC Berkeley data breach reported last week exposed the sensitive health information of more than 160,000 Berkeley students, alumni and others who used the school’s health system. Berkeley officials said that the breach did not expose the victims’ treatment information, an assertion th...

More than 160,000 affected by data breach at UC Berkeley

Hackers had access to a database for about six months at the University of California at Berkeley and stole health-related data on more than 160,000 students and other people who used the school’s health services center. College officials said that the attack on the health center’s database was...