|
Home > News > Tags > Data Breach
|
|
30
Stories about: Data Breach |
|
|
More: << previous 50 | next 50 >>
Hackers who exploited a vulnerability on Citigroup's Citi Account Online website earlier this year managed to steal $2.7 million from the victims' accounts.On June 9 Citi announced that its Citi Account Online system was compromised by unidentified attackers who extracted the account data of 1% of its North... |
28 June 2011
04:02 GMT |
 |
|
Video game giant Electronic Arts (EA) has confirmed that an older server belonging to BioWare, one of its subsidiaries, has been compromised by hackers who stole user data.According to a Q&A page posted on its website, the hacked server was supporting the forums for Neverwinter Nights (NWN), a popular role-playing ga... |
27 June 2011
09:34 GMT |
|
|
A group of hackers called TeaMp0isoN has leaked personal information about former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as well as his friends and co-workers.According to the hackers, the information was obtained back in December 2010 from a hacked webmail server that Blair used.The leaked data includes names, home addr... |
25 June 2011
07:36 GMT |
|
|
NATO has warned users of its e-Bookshop site that their data might have been stolen during a recent attack against carried out by unknown perpetrators."Police dealing with digital crimes have notified NATO of a probable data breach from a NATO-related website operated by an external company."NATO’s e-Bookshop i... |
24 June 2011
12:41 GMT |
|
|
Travelodge, an UK budget hotel chain, has alerted customers that they might receive spam as a result of a breach that hasn't yet been determined.The company launched an investigation after multiple users reported receiving work-at-home job offers on email addresses registered only with them.There were speculatio... |
24 June 2011
10:47 GMT |
|
|
A new class action lawsuit was filed against several Sony subsidiaries, including Sony Corporation of America, Sony Computer Entertainment of America, Sony Picture Entertainment and Sony Network Entertainment International, for failure to adequately protect costumer data.The complaint was filed by Felix Cortorreal, J... |
24 June 2011
07:26 GMT |
|
|
Sega became the latest game developer to suffer a data breach in recent months after admitting that hackers broke into its customer service system and stole information about 1.3 million accounts.Sega announced yesterday that names, birth dates, email addresses and hashed passwords were stolen from its Sega Pass serv... |
20 June 2011
09:25 GMT |
|
|
Citigroup has revealed that over 360,000 accounts were compromised in the recent attack against its Citi Account Online system, more than it was initially estimated.On June 9, Citigroup admitted that hackers managed to extract sensitive customer information from its Citi Account Online website.At the time, the compan... |
20 June 2011
00:10 GMT |
|
|
Canadian video game developer BioWare notified 18,000 users who had accounts registered on an old system that their email addresses and passwords were stolen by hackers.The compromised community server, which dates back almost ten years according to the developer, was associated with the forums for Neverwinter Nights... |
16 June 2011
09:55 GMT |
|
|
Experts familiar with the investigation into the recent Citigroup security breach claim that hackers used URL manipulation to extract customer data.According to a New York Times report, hackers stole information about 200,000 Citi credit card holders by exploiting a simple flaw in the company's Citi Account Onli... |
15 June 2011
12:41 GMT |
|
|
The Information Commissioner's Office fined the Surrey County Council with £120,000 for emailing personal information to the wrong addresses on three separate occasions.The first data breach occurred in May 2010 when an employee with one of the council's Adult Social Care Teams was asked by her manage... |
13 June 2011
00:22 GMT |
|
|
Citigroup has admitted that hackers managed to break into its systems and accessed information on about 200,000 North American credit card holders.The Financial Times reports that the breach was discovered in early May and involved customer names, account numbers and contact information.However, information that woul... |
9 June 2011
05:54 GMT |
|
|
Pixmania customers tartgeted in recent spam campaigns, fear that the company's client email list might have been compromised.The Register reports that numerous Pixmania customers began receiving unsolicited emails lately, some of them on addresses exclusively registered with the online retailer.Concerned users f... |
8 June 2011
12:55 GMT |
|
|
Sony Pictures issued a press release confirming that a group of hackers called LulzSec has managed to steal customer information from several of its websites."The cybercrime wave that has affected Sony companies and a number of government agencies, businesses and individuals in recent months has hit Sony Pictures as ... |
4 June 2011
07:44 GMT |
|
|
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) has notified its customers that their personal information might have been exposed as a result of a recent security breach.A commission spokesperson told CNET that the incident involved a server housing sensitive data getting infected with malware."The server was ... |
3 June 2011
14:54 GMT |
|
|
A hacker group called Pakistan Cyber Army (PCA) claims to have broken into the European website of hardware manufacturer Acer and stolen the personal information of 40,000 customers.The Hacker News reports that in addition to customer information, PCA also stole proprietary source code and had complete access to the ... |
3 June 2011
13:18 GMT |
|
|
Honda Canada is facing a $200 million class action lawsuit after announcing earlier this month that the personal information of 283,000 of its customers has been compromised.The company sent notification letters to affected individuals on May 13, informing them that their names, addresses, Vehicle Identification Numb... |
1 June 2011
10:29 GMT |
|
|
Commonwealth Bank and other Australian banks cancelled over 10,000 credit cards after tracking fraudulent transactions back to a breach at an unspecified merchant.Commonwealth Bank was the most affected financial institution, having to call around 8,000 of its customers to let them known that their cards will be repl... |
30 May 2011
12:43 GMT |
|
|
Honda Canada informed customers that their personal information was compromised after hackers obtained unauthorized access to one of its databases.
The exposed data was collected back in 2009 as part of campaigns related to the MyHonda website. It includes names, addresses, Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN), an... |
28 May 2011
05:21 GMT |
|
|
Unnamed sources close to the Sony PlayStation Network data breach investigation claim the hackers launched their attack from Amazon's EC2 platform.Bloomberg reports that attackers used a fake identity to rent a server on Amazon's cloud computing platform and used it to hack into Sony's systems.Accordin... |
14 May 2011
06:54 GMT |
|
|
Andrew Crossley, the former owner of ACS:Law, a legal firm that engaged in speculative invoicing, was fined by the Information Commissioner's Office for failing to adequately protect personal data.Speculative invoicing is the still on-going practice of sending letters to file sharers suspected of copyright infri... |
10 May 2011
14:03 GMT |
|
|
The Office of the Texas Comptroller has been named as defendant in a lawsuit seeking $3.5 billion in damages after the institution exposed the personally identifiable information of millions of people.This is actually the second lawsuit filed in response to the Comptroller's office leaving sensitive records avai... |
9 May 2011
12:53 GMT |
|
|
Sony has dealt with a new breach over the weekend which exposed the names and partial addresses of 2,500 people who participated in a sweepstakes contest ten years ago.Sony learned about the intrusion after hackers stole the information and posted it on a public website. The company took measures to remove the data f... |
9 May 2011
02:11 GMT |
|
|
Best Buy has warned its customers for the second time in the course of two months that their email addresses might have been compromised as a result of a security breach at one of its service providers.However, according to the retailer, the compromised party was no longer a business partner at the time of the securi... |
6 May 2011
10:05 GMT |
|
|
The Anonymous hacktivist collective vehemently denies any involvement into the intrusions and data breaches suffered by Sony and suggests that someone might be trying to frame it.In a lengthy press release the group stresses that it has never been engaged in credit card theft and that this kind of action would stand ... |
5 May 2011
11:38 GMT |
|
|
Fox has notified around 250,000 US residents who signed up for X Factor auditions that their personal details might have been compromised after a hacker broke into its systems.In an email sent to individuals possibly affected by this security breach, the company noted that exposed information might include their name... |
5 May 2011
09:18 GMT |
|
|
Sony has issued a clarification saying that while exposed PlayStation Network (PSN) account passwords were not encrypted, they were hashed using a cryptographic function.The clarification comes after many news outlets reported that passwords were stored in plain text form, a practice known for being insecure.The conf... |
3 May 2011
13:52 GMT |
|
|
Following recent revelations that PlayStation Network (PSN) was compromised by hackers who stole the personal information of millions of users, Sony Online Entertainment, another division of Sony Corporation, announced a computer intrusion that led to the exposure of over 24 million personal and financial records.San... |
3 May 2011
09:49 GMT |
|
|
Following the massive data breach that led to the shutdown of Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN), some customers have begun reporting credit card fraud, although most of these reports are likely not related to the incident.Two days ago Sony finally revealed the reason why the PSN has been offline since April 20 an... |
28 April 2011
04:10 GMT |
|
|
Sony has alerted its over 75 million PlayStation Network customers that their personal and possibly their financial information has been compromised as a result of a recent intrusion that led to the system being shut down.The PlayStation maker finally decided to shed more light into the incident that forced it to tak... |
27 April 2011
05:23 GMT |
|
|
The Office of the Texas Comptroller has fired its Information Security chief and three other employees, including the head of Innovation and Technology, following a data breach that exposed the personal information of 3.5 million people.On March 21, the office discovered that data sets sent by the Teacher Retirement ... |
22 April 2011
09:46 GMT |
|
|
A federal judge declined to dismiss a lawsuit seeking damages from social application developer RockYou for exposing the personally identifiable information (PII) of over 32 million people as a result of a data breach. RockYou is one of the largest publishers of social games and applications with an active month... |
20 April 2011
04:58 GMT |
|
|
German software developer Ashampoo has notified its customers about a data breach incident that resulted in the exposure of their names and email addresses.According to an announcement posted on the company's website, unidentified hackers broke through its security systems and gained unauthorized access to a ser... |
20 April 2011
02:58 GMT |
|
|
The recent announcement of a massive data breach incident at email marketing services provider Epsilon is being exploited by cyber criminals to distribute malware.At the beginning of April, Epsilon Data Management, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Alliance Data Systems, announced that hackers managed to break into its se... |
19 April 2011
05:23 GMT |
|
|
Verizon has published its 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report revealing a huge 97% decline of lost records volume despite a similarly impressive increase in the number of incidents.The report, issued in collaboration with the United States Secret Service and the Dutch High Tech Crime Unit, analyzed 761 data breach... |
19 April 2011
03:56 GMT |
|
|
Hackers have broken into servers owned by Automattic, the company operating the WordPress.com blogging service, and might have stolen proprietary code.In a post on the official WordPress.com blog, Automattic's founder and president, Matt Mullenweg, said that attackers managed to obtain low-level (root) access on... |
14 April 2011
06:41 GMT |
|
|
A group of hackers has managed to break into the website of Web security firm Barracuda Networks and extract confidential information from its database.California-based Barracuda Networks specializes in email, Web and messaging security solutions. It sells firewall, filtering, archiving, backup, load balancing and ot... |
12 April 2011
10:21 GMT |
|
|
The Office of the Texas Comptroller is in the process of notifying 3.5 million individuals that their personal information was exposed after being stored on a publicly accessible server.The compromised records contained names, mailing addresses, dates of birth, driver's licence numbers and Social Security number... |
12 April 2011
05:41 GMT |
|
|
South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has launched an investigation into a data breach at Hyundai Capital, the country's biggest lender, which affected around 420,000 consumers.The security incident was disclosed last week, when Hyundai Capital announced that a hacker managed to steal the names ... |
11 April 2011
06:04 GMT |
|
|
The US Airline Pilots Association (USAPA) claims that national security is at risk after an US Airways employee leaked the personal information of 3,000 pilots.The pilots' union claims it has been working with the FBI since November 2010 to determine the true extent of the breach, which US Airways has only recen... |
11 April 2011
05:55 GMT |
|
|
Members of the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade have sent a letter to Dallas-based Alliance Data Systems, questioning the company about the recent data breach at its subsidiary, Epsilon Data Management.At the beginning of the month Epsilon announced that hackers broke into its email server and ... |
9 April 2011
03:23 GMT |
|
|
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) warns that phishing attacks resulting from the data breach at email marketing vendor Epsilon have already started to appear.Despite resulting in the exposure of only email addresses and names, the Epsilon data breach is considered one of the largest such incidents ever to occur.At the... |
8 April 2011
11:12 GMT |
|
|
Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has launched an investigation into the recent data breach at email marketing services provider Epsilon which resulted in the exposure of millions of email addresses.The security community is still in shock over the extent of the Epsilon breach which affected the custome... |
8 April 2011
02:19 GMT |
|
|
The recent data breach at email marketing provider Epsilon, that led to the exposure of millions of email addresses, might have been the result of a targeted attack the company knew about.On November 24 last year, Return Path, a company specializing in email reputation and monitoring, alerted their partners that Emai... |
7 April 2011
09:53 GMT |
|
|
The security breach at email marketing provider Epsilon Data Management has affected millions of consumers including those that unsubscribed from the stolen mailing lists.Late last month Epsilon discovered an intrusion into its email systems and determined that attackers walked away with the costumer email lists of m... |
6 April 2011
12:55 GMT |
|
|
Play.com, one of the largest online UK retailers of video games, books and DVDs, has apologized for a wave of malicious spam received by its customers and said that it's possibly connected to a breach at an email marketing company called Silverpop.According to The Register, Play.com customers began receiving rog... |
22 March 2011
13:59 GMT |
|
|
An official investigation into a customer data breach at Vodafone Australia concluded that the company did not meet some of its legal obligations to protect the data.Back in January, a Sydney Morning Herald report claimed that employees from Vodafone dealerships were misusing their access to the company's custom... |
16 February 2011
02:50 GMT |
|
|
LUSH Cosmetics, a company selling handmade cosmetics products, has shut down its websites in Australia and New Zealand after hackers breached them and stole customer billing details.The company has advised people who placed online orders on any of the two websites, to contact their banks and discuss cancelling their ... |
15 February 2011
02:59 GMT |
|
|
UK privacy advocates are strongly criticizing the Information Commissioner's Office for dropping its investigation into Data Protection Act violations committed by BT when sending unencrypted customers details to a law firm.The investigation began last September when an email database was leaked from ACS:Law, a ... |
2 February 2011
13:11 GMT |
|
|
As much as 750 University of Missouri (UM) employees had their personal information exposed after their health benefit statements were delivered to the wrong addresses earlier this month.The data breach incident occurred between January 6th and 10th, and was caused by a computer error at Coventry Health Care, the com... |
25 January 2011
03:11 GMT |
|
More: << previous 50 | next 50 >> |
|
|
Find us on Google+
