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Another Korean data breach – GOMTV.NET reports hacker compromised user information, including passwords

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Dissent

Paul Ducklin reports that Seoul-based streaming media service GOMTV suffered a breach involving usernames and passwords. An email sent to customers on August 14 said: Dear Valued GOMTV.net users: We regretfully inform you that approximately at 2 AM KST, Aug.12th, there has been an attack against our web site, GOMTV.net. We have found that some…

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AU: Medical records strewn in abandoned Dore clinic in Hawthorn

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Dissent

Belinda Smith reports: Thousands of children’s medical files from a controversial treatment program for hyperactivity and dyslexia have been left strewn throughout an abandoned clinic in Melbourne’s inner east for the past three years. The files — which include names, dates of birth, home addresses and medication details — were left inside the Dore clinic…

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Kr: Court orders SK Communications to pay compensation for info leakage

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Dissent

Another follow-up on a massive data breach that resulted in the South Korean government discarding its plan to enforce real-name registration. Yonhap News reports:  A South Korean court ordered on Sunday the operator of the country’s third most-visited Internet portal to pay out compensation to a user whose information was leaked during last month’s massive…

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#Anonymous claims to have hacked BART; posts employee and rider data

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Dissent

On August 11, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) suspended wireless service.  According to a statement posted on their web site the next day, their intent was to address an expected protest following an officer-involved shooting on July 3: Organizers planning to disrupt BART service on August 11, 2011 stated they would use mobile devices…

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Mibbit reveals blog & test servers compromised

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Dissent

Yesterday, the Mibbit blog posted: At approximately 3pm GMT today unauthorised access was detected to the server which runs our Blog.  In response to this we shut it down and began investigating.  Later today at around 8pm GMT we shutdown our IRC services after it became clear that several pieces of backed up data had…

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Bethesda Forums Hacked; All Passwords Reset

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Dissent

Seen on Capsule Computers: And Lightning Strikes twice. After having their main website hacked back in June [previous coverage on DataBreaches.net can be found here], Bethesda have now sent out a new email to all forum users, informing of a security breach. No guilty parties were mentioned this time around, and as of now it…

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