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AU: Bad Taste: News Ltd suffers another online breach

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Dissent

Ben Grubb reports:

News Limited has suffered another security breach which has resulted in members receiving spam emails and potentially having their passwords exposed.

Taste.com.au, a product of News Limited’s News Magazines, last Friday emailed members to inform them of the breach which “potentially exposed” information about its members via “illegal and unauthorised access to an old version” of its database.

Read more on The Sydney Morning Herald, where you can also find a copy of the customer notification e-mail.

Darren Paul of IT News adds: that News Limited claims Taste.com.au has 2.4 million unique browsers and 23.4 million page impressions each month.

 

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