Stewart Mitchell reports: Personal details of thousands of Sun readers have been posted online following the hack attack on News International last month. The paper’s parent company News International sent out warning letters to readers explaining that compromised information could have been posted online in the wake of the 19 July attack. […] “Details vary, but could…
Category: Business Sector
Kr: Nate, Cyworld users pursue class action amid identity theft fears
Kim Yoo-chul reports: The situation can’t get any worse for SK Communications, the operator of Cyworld and Nate, following a hacking attack that compromised the personal information of 35 million of its customers. Stock prices of the Internet unit of the telecommunications giant SK Telecom plummeted. Officials admitted that the recent data loss may taint…
(Update) Ru: Web Stores Sued Over Data Leaks
Khristina Narizhnaya reports: An independent consumer rights watchdog has sued 10 of about 80 online stores whose customers’ personal information became available last week on the Internet, hoping to set a precedent for further privacy breach lawsuits. The Consumer Union of Russia wants the companies to admit that they broke the law by not preventing…
IN: Man nabbed for data theft
S Ahmed Ali reports: MUMBAI: A private data consultancy firm employee, who quit the job after allegedly selling data to a rival company for money, was arrested by sleuths of the Mumbai Cyber cell on Thursday. Sagar Deepak More, 28, a data executive with a US-based company in Mumbai, was arrested under the Information Technology…
Data stolen from 35 million South Korean social networking users
Graham Cluley writes: Hackers have broken into the popular South Korean websites Nate and Cyworld earlier this week, and stolen information about 35 million social networking users. Names, email addresses, phone numbers and resident registration numbers of users are said to have been compromised. The BBC reports that the Korean Communications Commission has pointed the finger…
Ru: Internet Shopping Data Compromised
First it was Megafon leaking SMS history and having it indexed on Yandex’s search engine. Now there’s a bigger breach. Natalya Krainova of The Moscow Times reports: A third Internet leak in just a week has exposed the private shopping habits of people at more than 80 online stores, including those selling model cars, perfume…