VietNam reportedly has its first case of prosecuting individuals for selling personal information: Three men in HCM City, including Duong Hong Le, Le Minh Trung and Hua Van Tuan, are accused of illegally collecting phone numbers and personal information of millions of people who are clients at securities and real estate trading companies–to sale, earning…
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Some members of Anonymous go after neo-Nazi organizations and sites (update1)
OK, first I noticed a paste on Pastebin.htm on December 30 by a “guest” that simply listed domain names: www.deutsche-stimme.de www.ds-versand.de altermedia-deutschland.info flutopfer.npd-sachsen.de gfp-netz.de naweko.de nein-zum-euro.de npd-bremen.de npd-sachsen.de stehar.com tinten-sachse.de www.frank-franz.de www.holger-apfel.de www.naweko.de www.nno-tv.de www.npd-dresden.de www.npd-fraktion-burgenlandkreis.de www.npd-fraktion-sachsen.de www.npd-kronach.de www.npd-leipzig.net www.npd-nol.de www.npd-sachsen.de www.npd-weissenfels.de NPD is the extreme right-wing party in Germany, so the paste caught my…
Cn: CIB takes down credit card fraud ring’s leader
Another data leak in China is embedded in this news report in The China Post: The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) yesterday nabbed the leader of a group of credit card criminals in Taoyuan County who profited through cheaply selling off illegally purchased concert tickets. A man surnamed Lin began shopping online with embezzled credit cards in…
United flyer finds dozens of passengers’ info online
Keli Rabon reports: Anna Culina just wanted to check her miles on United Airline’s mobile website, but instead, she ended up with a whole lot more. “I was navigating around activity and statements, and each time I navigated around to a different area, I pulled up someone else’s information,” Culina said. Culina found the personal…
AU: Telstra BigPond customer details exposed online
Mitchell Bingemann reports: TELSTRA has been stung by another embarrassing privacy breach after the email addresses and phone numbers of more than a thousand of its BigPond customers were made accessible online. In what appears to be a repeat of another security compromise for Telstra, an online spreadsheet containing customer names, email addresses and details…
AntiSec dumps 860,000 Stratfor members’ details, including 75,000 credit card numbers
As expected, hackers involved in the recent Stratfor hack have dumped everything other than the 200 GB of e-mails, which they are working on releasing after redaction. In a statement posted on Pastebin tonite that links to mirror sites for the data dump, they write: So now let’s talk… about cocks: It’s time to dump…