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Category: Business Sector
Citi Bike: Customer Credit Cards Exposed
The Wall Street Journal reports: A Citi Bike software glitch accidentally exposed sensitive personal and financial information—including credit card numbers—of more than 1,000 of its account holders, the bike sharing program’s operators wrote in a letter last week to the affected customers. The data breach occurred on April 15, according to a letter sent to…
Viber Media hacked by Syrian Electronic Army? It appears so… (UPDATE: Viber claims no hack)
It appears that Viber Media has been hacked by the SEA. The defacement on the site’s support page reads: Dear All Viber Users, The Israeli-based “Viber” is spying and tracking you We weren’t able to hack all Viber systems, but most of it is designed for spying and tracking A screenshot, displayed on the support…
Hackers hit Lakeland with “sophisticated and sustained attack”, passwords reset
Graham Cluley reports: Kitchenware store Lakeland has emailed customers telling them that hackers managed to gain unauthorised access to its web systems and databases late last week. Although the company has confirmed that hackers accessed “two encrypted databases”, it has been unable to ascertain whether information was stolen. Read more on his blog.
Tango down! Chat app millions ransacked by pro-Assad hacktivists
John Leyden reports: Hacktivists loyal to Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad claim to have extracted 1.5TB of sensitive data from chat app Tango. […] eHackingnews, which broke the story, reported that Tango was hit thanks to a vulnerable WordPress installation, based on screenshots of the hack supplied by the SEA. Tango confirmed it had suffered an…
Korea grapples with massive personal data theft, regulatory mess
Has reliance on Internet Explorer, ActiveX, public key system combined to open ‘black hole’ in cyber security? The Korea Herald reports: A string of cyber attacks have bombarded South Korea in recent years, leading to massive leaks of personal information stored in banks, government agencies and corporations. In January 2008, hackers stole the personal data…