The media has been buzzing with suspicions of a hacking operation that targeted the Bank of America, because of the temporary unavailability messages that were posted on the bank's official website's front page.Most voices claimed that hackers wanted to teach the institution a lesson for introducing the deb... |
4 October 2011
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News International has begun notifying The Sun customers that their personal information might have been exposed during a cyber attack against the company's network two weeks ago.On July 19, the notorious hacker group LulzSec hijacked the The Sun website and redirected visitors to a fake article about News Inter... |
2 August 2011
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DC-based publisher Kiplinger has alerted its customers that hackers stole their login, personal and, in some cases, financial information from the company's database.The incident occurred on around June 25, but the company took two weeks to notify affected individuals because it waited for the results of an inte... |
11 July 2011
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The recent data breach incident that resulted in information about Acer consumers in over 29 countries being exposed was the result of the company's own negligence.Last week, hackers identifying themselves as members of the Pakistan Cyber Army (PCA) obtained access to ftp.acer-euro.com, the FTP server for Acer&#... |
7 June 2011
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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
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McDonald's and Walgreens have both announced the compromise of their customer email databases and in McDonald's case the leak might involve much more information than just email addresses.The breach at Walgreens was discovered sometime last week and the company, which operates the largest drugstore chain in... |
14 December 2010
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The largest Australian telecommunications provider Telstra exposed the personal details of 570 customers after an employee accidentally sent an email with the confidential data to the wrong mailing list.The person responsible for the leak works for Telstra Country Wide, a Telstra division providing Internet and mobil... |
8 December 2010
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ECS Learning Systems, a seller of K-12 state-specific test prep materials, has sent notification letters to 1,300 customers after unidentified attackers hacked into its customer database and stole credit card data.The breach was discovered on October 15, but the initial intrusion occurred back in April. According to ... |
16 November 2010
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Unauthorized hackers have stolen customer information from New Zealand-based Hell Pizza, which also operates stores in Australia, England and Ireland. A database containing the sensitive data has been circulating within security circles since last year, without any confirmation of the breach from the company.Accordin... |
26 July 2010
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Wireless carrier T-Mobile UK has recently admitted that some of its employees have sold customer data to one of the rival networks in the country. The operator announced the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), and the two entities have been investigating together the allegations. The data sold is... |
18 November 2009
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A customer-service director from a UK Internet service provider called Demon Internet inadvertently mass-emailed the personal details of over 3,600 subscribers. The company was trying to announce the launch of its new online billing system. Demon Internet is one of the oldest British ISPs, being founded in June of 1... |
23 September 2009
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A bank is seeking a subpoena that will force Google to reveal information about a Gmail account, including the identity of its owner. The financial institution needs this information to determine the scope of a privacy-breach incident inadvertently generated by one of its own employees. Montana-based Rocky Mountain ... |
22 September 2009
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Eight individuals have been indicted in the Brooklyn federal court for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud. The prosecutors claim that they illegally obtained wireless equipment amounting to $22 million by using stolen AT&T and T-Mobile customer information.The complex scheme began in February 2005 and las... |
24 August 2009
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The Romanian self-proclaimed ethical hacking outfit HackersBlog has disclosed an SQL injection vulnerability in the website of Tiscali UK. The flaw allows for unauthorized access to the database containing the personal and login information of the registered users. Tiscali is an European Internet service provider he... |
16 March 2009
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The online music streaming service Spotify has made the subject of a recent data breach incident. The website administration has announced that the privacy of its users might have been compromised due to a vulnerability in the communication protocols. Spotify allows users to listen and browse for audio tracks throug... |
5 March 2009
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