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The largest credit card recall effort in Germany's history is underway after an undisclosed payment processor in Spain was breached. Affected individuals are currently being notified and they will be reimbursed if they suffered any losses.The warning about the dangerous situation came from both Visa and Masterca... |
20 November 2009
05:13 GMT |
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The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) has been the target of cyber-espionage. According to an official press release, government IT specialists have located a piece of malware on the network that was specifically designed to steal information and remain undetected.The Federal Department of Foreign Af... |
2 November 2009
09:45 GMT |
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The administrators of the jobs.guardian.co.uk have announced that the online recruitment website suffered a serious security breach. As a result, the company has notified nearly 500,000 people that their data might have been compromised. The Guardian Jobs website is owned by Guardian News and Media Limited, the comp... |
26 October 2009
06:35 GMT |
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The breach of an online payroll processing system belonging to a large provider called PayChoice has surfaced after its customers have started receiving targeted malware distribution attacks via email. The attackers are looking to infect the company's clients with an information-stealing trojan after they only s... |
2 October 2009
08:42 GMT |
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Multiple vulnerabilities discovered in the website of a UK-based company called OnlineFX, which conducts foreign exchange services, can be exploited to extract highly sensitive data from the underlying database. Credit card details and customer information are possibly compromised.According to its own website, Online... |
29 September 2009
08:04 GMT |
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The hacking of a server belonging to the University of North Carolina's School of Medicine resulted in compromising personal information and SSNs belonging to 163,000 women. The university is in the process of notifying the affected individuals.IDG News reports that the server hosted mammography data as part of ... |
28 September 2009
06:53 GMT |
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The Radisson Hotels & Resorts chain has issued an apology letter to its North American clients that have been accommodated in some of its Canadian and US-based hotels. The letter was addressing a data breach in the hotel's credit-card security system that allowed third parties to gain access to some customer cre... |
21 August 2009
06:28 GMT |
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Mozilla announced that its US official store website had been shut down due to a security breach that resulted in costumer data being compromised. GatewayCDI, the third-party vendor operating the site's back-end, is currently investigating the incident. The Mozilla Store website, store.mozilla.com, was launched... |
5 August 2009
07:19 GMT |
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DLP Lamp Source, a distributor of replacement DLP and LCD lamps, is in the process of notifying its customers of a data-breach incident, which exposed their personal information and credit-card details. The company notes that the administration portion of its website was compromised by unknown attackers. We have bec... |
31 July 2009
04:47 GMT |
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Network Solutions, one of the biggest domain registrars and web hosting companies in the world, announced a data breach incident yesterday after malicious code had been found on its e-commerce servers. According to the company, the malware might have intercepted transactions from 4,343 websites, compromising 573,928 ... |
25 July 2009
04:10 GMT |
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TJX, the parent company of Marshalls, T.J. Maxx, HomeGoods and other big retail chains, has settled with Attorney Generals from 41 U.S. states regarding what was once considered the biggest data breach in history. The company agreed to a total of $9.75-million payment that would cover investigative costs ($1.75 milli... |
26 June 2009
04:26 GMT |
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On Saturday, wireless telecommunications giant T-Mobile was faced with a grim prospective, after hackers publicly announced that they successfully stole all of the corporate data from its U.S. branch. The unknown perpetrators claim they initially attempted to sell the sensitive information to the company's compe... |
9 June 2009
04:24 GMT |
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Four years after a major data breach occurred at CardSystems Solutions, the auditing company that certified the payment processor is taken to court by the bank that contracted with CardSystems based on its report. Experts say that the lawsuit could set an important precedent for auditor accountability. Utah-based Me... |
4 June 2009
05:44 GMT |
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Batteries.com, a supplier of batteries and accessories for electronic consumer products, has announced a data breach incident after unknown individuals obtained unauthorized access to the server used to host its online store. Customer names, addresses and credit card details were stolen and some of the information ha... |
3 June 2009
08:12 GMT |
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A laptop containing the personal and banking details of 109,000 members of six of the Pensions Trust's 39 schemes was stolen from the offices of NorthgateArinso, a company contracted to develop pension administration software. The computer was password-protected, but the data itself was not encrypted. The Pensi... |
1 June 2009
05:05 GMT |
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Aetna, one of the largest health care benefit companies in the U.S., alerted around 65,000 current and former employees that their Social Security Numbers might have been stolen by hackers. The breach occurred on the company's job application website, which was being maintained by a partner.A few weeks ago, the ... |
30 May 2009
05:14 GMT |
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The University of California, Berkeley, is in the process of notifying 160,000 current and past students, as well as some of their parents, spouses and other people, that their personal and medical information was stolen by hackers. The data breach incident occurred between October 2008 and April this year.Unknown at... |
9 May 2009
06:54 GMT |
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During a conference-call yesterday regarding the Q1 earnings of Heartland Payment Systems, the company's CEO, Robert Carr, revealed that the company spent over twelve and a half million dollars so far, as a direct result of the data breach incident disclosed in January. He also announced plans to introduce end-t... |
8 May 2009
04:43 GMT |
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IT security giant Symantec has notified authorities in the U.K., the U.S. and Puerto Rico that the credit card information of around 200 of its customers might have been compromised. The company has started an investigation at one of its outsourced call centers in India, after BBC reporters successfully acquired vali... |
1 April 2009
06:28 GMT |
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Evidence is piling up against "the Analyzer," an Israeli hacker who was arrested in Canada in September 2008 for hacking into a Canadian credit and debit card issuer and siphoning cash out of the compromised accounts. According to an affidavit (PDF) obtained by Wired, authorities in the U.S. also linked him to severa... |
26 March 2009
05:23 GMT |
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Following a data leak incident, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK has ordered (PDF) Camden Primary Care Trust (PCT) to ensure patient data safety when disposing of old computer equipment. The trust risks being held in contempt of court, if it does not update the Office on the progress made u... |
24 March 2009
09:05 GMT |
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An Australian working in the IT industry has stumbled upon a cached website containing the complete details of around 22,000 credit cards. Most of them belong to US and UK citizens and are issued by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Solo, Switch, Delta and Maestro/Cirrus. According to ITnews Australia, the man has... |
24 March 2009
07:34 GMT |
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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
06:34 GMT |
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Following the disclosure of an SQL injection vulnerability affecting a section of the British Telecom website, the company claims that no customer data has been affected. Meanwhile, the hacker has published evidence of a new, more serious flaw on BT.com. The original security breach was reported by a Romanian hacker... |
12 March 2009
04:14 GMT |
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Evidence of an SQLi flaw allegedly affecting the website of BT, one of the largest communications providers in the world, has been published by a self-confessed white-hat hacker. He claims that successful exploitation of the vulnerability exposes the login credentials and e-mail addresses of registered users. BT, al... |
10 March 2009
04:35 GMT |
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HackersBlog, the Romanian whitehat hacking outfit, have disclosed an SQL vulnerability in a section of the telegraph.co.uk website. According to the group, the flaw gives attackers access to over 700,000 e-mail addresses and user passwords.The Daily Telegraph, also referred to as The Telegraph, is one of the biggest ... |
7 March 2009
07:44 GMT |
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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
08:03 GMT |
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In a recently-released report, M. Eric Johnson, director of Dartmouth College's Center for Digital Strategies, describes how he has easily found an impressive amount of sensitive patient records being shared on peer-to-peer networks. Their origins have not been particularly named, but they include hospitals, cli... |
4 March 2009
06:13 GMT |
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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 |
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A white-hat hacker claims that the website of UK's National Lottery is open to SQL injection attacks that could endanger the privacy of the registered players. By exploiting an insecure parameter on a page, unauthorized access to the site's database can be obtained. The http://www.national-lottery.co.uk we... |
24 February 2009
06:24 GMT |
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The University of Florida is in the process of notifying over 97,200 current and former students and staff that their personally identifiable information might have been accessed by unauthorized parties. The university's IT staff has recently discovered that an e-learning system that dates back to 1996 had ... |
21 February 2009
04:56 GMT |
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The Romanian ethical hacking outfit HackersBlog shames yet another antivirus vendor – Symantec. A SQL injection vulnerability in a section of the Symantec website allows unauthorized access to the database. Symantec is one of the biggest IT security companies in the world, developing a wide range of products f... |
19 February 2009
03:41 GMT |
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The Romanian HackersBlog outfit disclosed a SQL injection vulnerability in the website of the International Herald Tribune, the international edition of the New York Times. A poorly-sanitized parameter allowed the hackers to obtain access to the database, including the table containing the login credentials of the ne... |
18 February 2009
03:47 GMT |
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After previously compromising websites belonging or related to Kaspersky and Bitdefender, the Romanian hackers from the HackersBlog crew launched a new successful SQL injection attack against the website of an antivirus vendor. This time around, it was F-Secure, however, the security breach did not have the potential... |
12 February 2009
04:07 GMT |
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Both Kaspersky and Bitdefender antivirus vendors have been left with red faces by a Romanian hacker who obtained access to the SQL databases of two of their websites. The data stored in the databases includes customer information, e-mails, support tickets, and even activation codes. A hacker going by the nickname of... |
9 February 2009
07:13 GMT |
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A government security contractor is in the process of notifying its employees that their personal information may have been stolen after a virus has compromised the security of its network. As a precaution, the company is offering free enrollment with a credit monitoring service to its workers. SRA International is ... |
4 February 2009
04:24 GMT |
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The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), a nonprofit organization that tracks data breaches in U.S., reported 516 incidents that resulted in a total of over 30 million personal records being compromised so far in 2008, out of which 97.5% were electronically stored.The ITRC gathers the reports from various media sou... |
7 October 2008
10:21 GMT |
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An IT manager who bought a second-hand computer from eBay discovered that the hard disk of the machine contained the bank information of 1 million persons. The computer, which was sold for £35 (approximately $75), had previously belonged to Graphic Data, a company that stores information of clients of banks and... |
27 August 2008
20:40 GMT |
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A survey conducted by Deloitte & Touche LLP and the Ponemon Institute LLC revealed that 85 percent of the security professionals in North America discovered a data breach, targeting personally identifiable information inside their company in the last year. Moreover, 63 percent of the respondents confirmed they have ... |
14 December 2007
15:31 GMT |
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When I first got hold of this material, I thought it could not be possible! Some people have no idea what's good for them! I mean, when someone finds out you have a cyber-security issue, you should at least thank them, not punish them! This is the case of an Oregonian student, that also worked as a journalist fo... |
8 October 2007
09:17 GMT |
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Now, here's a bizarre case of data breaching for you. The TD Ameritrade Company had a huge database with sensitive information belonging to clients. And when I say huge, I mean 6.3 million accounts. Hackers broke into it using the classic backdoor tactic, so what was weird in that? Well, the fishy part was that ... |
17 September 2007
03:37 GMT |
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There have been many news items earlier this year about the huge data breach that hit retailer giant TJX. Hackers had been stealing sensitive information for a few months, so it's easy to imagine how hard the blow was. Costs were huge on the company side, after the hack has happened, and I'm talking about m... |
12 September 2007
06:48 GMT |
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Sure, it's great to deploy all sorts of programs on your machine/s in order to enforce security; but in some cases, one tool can be pretty much useless. Not completely, but it won't do the thing that you really need. And this is really true when talking about ant-data-leakage programs.What do you expect the... |
12 September 2007
04:47 GMT |
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A lot of hacks happen these days, databases are being breached, sensitive info stolen and sometimes it's not even the database owner's fault. You can't have both data (being easy to access and to use) and tight security. There is no such thing as the perfect system, but there are some of them really ha... |
11 September 2007
10:11 GMT |
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