Shashank Rao reports: Your phone company knows where you live, your PAN, your employer and even your monthly salary. But wouldn’t you be shocked to find that the details that you provide so trustingly will find its way to a food stall vendor and, from him, to anyone who cares to stop for a bite?…
Category: Business Sector
73,000 Finnish web users’ details hacked
The login details of 73,000 users of a popular Finnish family-oriented discussion forum were stolen and posted online in the latest in a series of widespread hacking attacks, police said today. “We are aware of this incident and are investigating it as part of our wider investigation into the hacking attacks,” police investigator Timo Piiroinen…
Texas realty firm’s renters’ details and payments dumped on Pastebin
Whoa. Maybe all companies should add “check Pastebin” to their daily security to-do list. A series of three data dumps from Carbajal Realty, Inc. in Waco, Texas reveals names, e-mail addresses, rental addresses, and payment info for approximately 625 renters. Here’s a redacted entry: payment_time=2010-07-07 05:57:04 rental_street=xxxx S. 10th Street amount=425.00 phone=214-998-xxxx contact_name=xxxxx_xxxx [email protected] payments_id=479…
101Domain.com Suffers Securty Breach
Michael H. Berkens reports: 101Domain.com has apparently suffered a security breach which “may have resulted in unauthorized access to your personal information and possibly payment information.” According to Webhosting.info, 101domain.com has around 10,000 domain names under management. Read more on TheDomains.com. From the notification letter: We are writing to you as a primary contact on your account with…
Save Mart warns customers to check accounts after skimmers found in 20 stores
Rick Hurd reports: Modesto-based Save Mart Supermarkets is warning customers at several of its Bay Area stores that their personal banking information may have been compromised. The company issued a news release Wednesday saying that upon routine maintenance, store employees found credit and debit card readers that had been tampered with in the self-checkout lanes…
NJ: Four charged with stealing identities; two were DMV employees
Two state motor vehicle clerks and two businessmen from Burlington County have been charged with stealing identities from government records and selling them for as little as $200. Mercer County Prosecutor Joseph L. Bocchini, Jr. announced the arrests yesterday, saying the busts were the result of seven-month investigation at two New Jersey Motor Vehicles Commission…