Texas State Technical College
February 19, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Texas State Technical College (tstc.edu) Waco notifies almost 3,000 former students and fewer than 2,000 employees that personal information may have been compromised after an unauthorized party remotely gained access to a server that contained the data.
West Bengal Public Health Engineering Department
February 4, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, government ]
West Bengal's Public Health Engineering Department (wbphed.gov.in) is attacked and defaced by a group of Pakistani hacktivists demanding to "free Kashmir" among other things.
PayPal
February 5, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Hackers have compromised the eBay and PayPal marketing webpages in the UK, France, and India, causing some visitors to be redirected to fraudulent destinations.
National Health Service
February 3, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, healthcare ]
A coding error on the official website of the United Kingdom's National Health Service (nhs.uk) is abused to implant malicious code on more than 800 pages.
Ateneo Integrated Student Information System
February 2, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
A group identified as "Pinoy Anonymouz" defaces the website of the Ateneo Integrated Student Information System (AISIS).
Snapchat
January 2, 2014
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
Greyhat hackers publish the partial phone numbers belonging to more than 4.5 million Snapchat users after exploiting a recently disclosed security weakness that officials of the service had described as theoretical.