Another electronic giant has become victim to cyber attack and this time its Samsung. Samsung has been breached and hacked by Turkish Ajan Hacker Group who have left the site with a defacement and leak of data to deal with. Turkish Ajan Hacker Group announced the leaked early today from the official twitter account @TurkishAjan > @TurkishAjan…
Month: June 2013
Pirate Bay co-founder jailed for two years
From The Local: Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was sentenced on Thursday to two years in prison for data breaches, aggravated fraud, and attempted aggravated fraud, in what was Sweden’s biggest ever hacking trial. Svartholm Warg was convicted by the Nacka District Court after a hacking attack against Swedish IT firm Logica through which…
Hackers Break Into Toyota Server
Yoree Koh reports: Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday its Japanese-language corporate website had been hacked earlier this month. The world’s biggest auto maker said the security breach didn’t compromise customer information because such data isn’t stored on the site. But it urges those who visited the site from June 5 to June 14 to install…
ADP “software code error” exposes Houston govt. employees’ info online
Cindy George reports: Technical issues encountered by the city of Houston’s payroll contractor could have potentially exposed personal information for nearly 5,000 local government workers, including more than 1,000 in the Houston Police Department. Widespread notice about the compromised data emerged on Wednesday when the Houston Police Officers’ Union posted a notice to members on its…
Dumpster discoveries anger tenants
Robert Townsend reports: Some former applicants and tenants are frustrated after finding their social security numbers, bank statements and other personal information in a dumpster at the Eldorado Apartments on E. 67th Street in Raytown, Mo. Read more on Fox4
San Jose IT Consultant Charged With Identity Theft
Lisa Fernandez reports: A 39-year-old San Jose IT consultant has been charged with a string of Silicon Valley office burglaries that netted computer components and customer profiles and caused the networks of several businesses to shut down. After an investigation by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s high-tech crime task force, Andrew Madrid was charged…