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.
Category: Business Sector
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…
Apple Hacked: Company Admits Development Website Was Breached (UPDATED)
Apple admitted Sunday that its website for developers had been breached by an “intruder” last Thursday, according to All Things D and other sources. In a letter to developers that confirmed the breach, the company did not “rule out” that developers’ names, mailing addresses, and email addresses could have been accessed. However, customer information is encrypted and was not…
Hack exposes e-mail addresses, password data for 2 million Ubuntu Forum users
Dan Goodin reports that e-mail addresses, user names, and password data for every registered user of the Ubuntu Forums—estimated to be 1.82 million accounts—were exposed in a security breach. Read more on Ars Technica.
Quayside breach update
It seems that the breach notification letter received by residents of New Hampshire may have contained more information than the letter received by Vermont residents. In a letter dated June 21 (the same date as the letter quoted here), Quayside added a statement that there were 639 orders affecting 532 customers, from all areas combined,…