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More Accounts Exposed in Citigroup Hack than Originally Believed

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

European Sony Website Hacked

The number of compromised Sony websites keeps growing by the day, with a new breach on one of the company's European web properties being announced just hours ago.A hacker who goes by the name of Idahc claims to have obtained access to the apps.pro.sony.eu database which contained the personal information of aro...

4 June 2011
04:34 GMT

Mozilla Leaks User Account Info from Official Add-Ons Site

Mozilla has alerted 44,000 addons.mozilla.org (AMO) users that their account information might have been exposed after a sensitive file was left in a publicly accessible location on one of its servers.In its notification letter, Mozilla explained that the file in question was a partial representation of the AMO user ...

28 December 2010
08:23 GMT

The Internet Archive Leaks Member Data

A hacker has disclosed an SQL injection vulnerability in the website of the Internet Archive project, which exposed sensitive information about registered members. The leaked data included personal details such as the e-mail address, names, home address, zip, city and state. The vulnerability was discovered and repo...

22 September 2009
06:00 GMT

Security Flaw in eBay's Developer Program

eBay developer accounts may have been compromised by an unknown security flaw. On August 10, 2009, in an announcement from Kumar Kandaswamy, manager of the eBay Developer Program, the e-commerce giant revealed that a dangerous security flaw had been discovered in the Developer Program.According to Mr. Kandaswamy, no ...

13 August 2009
08:26 GMT

The Telegraph Website Leaks Subscriber Information

Romanian grey-hat hacker Unu has hit the Daily Telegraph website for a second time in under three months and says that the impact of the new vulnerability he found is much more serious than last time. According to the hacker, the weakness allows for the execution of an SQL injection attack and the extraction of the p...

29 May 2009
04:47 GMT

Comcast Customer Accounts Leaked

A user who was curious to search how much of his personal information was available on the Internet, stumbled upon a document containing some 8,000 usernames and passwords belonging to Comcast customers. After checking the file, the Internet service provider disabled around 700 active accounts and said it had been mo...

18 March 2009
08:56 GMT

New Payment Processor Data Breach on the Horizon

Notifications from credit unions, banking associations and other various groups point to a big data breach that has not yet been disclosed to the general public. The affected processor has not been named, but, according to the available information, a significant number of accounts have been compromised. The reports...

26 February 2009
08:04 GMT

The phpBB Project Website Hacked

The project website of one of the most popular open source bulletin boards, phpBB, has suffered a major security breach that has resulted in the exposure of 400,000 e-mail addresses. A hacker has obtained access to both the forum and mailing list databases by exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in the PHPlist newsl...

5 February 2009
04:11 GMT


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