Reporters were targeted in an advanced and months-long campaign to infiltrate the news outlet with an unknown goal in mind. The hackers published their bounty online including mailing addresses, phone numbers, business emails, and fax numbers. The Fed drew the ire of hacking collective Anonymous, which accessed the personal data of 4,000 bank executives.
The DHS says that there is no evidence of fraudulent use of the information, but it should serve as a reminder about liability due to third-party components. In an odd turn of events for the DHS, a vendor provided software vulnerability exposed names, SSNs, and dates of birth of potentially thousands of employees. Users’ passwords were securely stored, but Evernote took the precaution of resetting an estimated 50 million passwords. Suspicious network activity alerted the team to attempts into their corporate network. EvernoteĪnother attack that was detected live by the company’s security team was against Evernote. In addition to the PII data was potentially reputational damaging information such as jail bookings and DUI citations.
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Up to 160,000 SSNs and 1 million drivers license numbers were exposed in March and announced in a release in May. Washington State Court System Administrative Office TwitterĪ data breach in February exposed usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords of 250,000 users, and is somewhat of a unique incident in that the Twitter team discovered the live attack as it was happening and were able to shut it down while it was in progress. Exposed information included names, email addresses, and birth dates. Living SocialĪn unfortunate event for an e-commerce start-up, Living Social unwittingly shared PII about an estimated 50 million users due to a breach.
While many people are out having summer fun at the beach, we have some stark evidence pointing out that so far in 2013, life has been anything but a beach for many organizations in nearly every vertical- including tech, financial, retail, state government, federal government, and even news organizations.
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