Gregg Keizer reports: Email addresses and names of subscribers to DefenseNews, a highly-regarded website that covers national and international military and defense news, were accessed by hackers and presumed stolen, Gannett announced yesterday. DefenseNews ‘ subscribers include active and retired military personnel, defense contractors and others in both the U.S. and other countries’ defense establishments….
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Groupon leaks entire Indian user database
Patrick Gray writes: The entire user database of Groupon’s Indian subsidiary Sosasta.com was accidentally published to the Internet and indexed by Google. The database includes the e-mail addresses and clear-text passwords of the site’s 300,000 users. It was discovered by Australian security consultant Daniel Grzelak as he searched for publicly accessible databases containing e-mail address…
Seattle man sentenced to 5 yrs in bank fraud/id theft case
This is a follow-up on a previously reported breach: DIAMOND WENDELL ALEXANDER, JR., 30, of Seattle, Washington, was sentenced June 17, 2011, to five years in prison, five years of supervised release, and more than $220,000 in restitution for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. ALEXANDER was the leader of a bank fraud ring…
T&T supermarket chain in Canada discloses hack affecting 58,000 customers; issues warning about malware
Seen at InsideToronto.com: The website of Canada’s largest Asian supermarket chain has been hacked. Richmond, BC-based T&T Supermarket Inc, which has three locations in Toronto (two in Scarborough and one in the port lands), advised the public of “unauthorized and illegal intrusions” on its website – www.tnt-supermarket.com – in a June 24 press release. The…
10 days and additional information later…. (BioWare update)
Back on June 14, BioWare learned that they had been hacked. The following day, and as reported here previously, they notified users on their forum that the hack may have compromised “information such as user account names and passwords, email addresses, and birth dates of approximately 18,000 accounts.” Today, 10 days later, my son received…
Sony laid off employees before data breach: Lawsuit
Reuters reports: Sony Corp laid off employees in a unit responsible for network security two weeks before a massive data breach, according to a lawsuit filed this week. Sony also spent lavishly on security to protect its own corporate information, while failing to do the same for its customers’ data, the proposed class action lawsuit…