Another follow-up on a massive data breach that resulted in the South Korean government discarding its plan to enforce real-name registration. Yonhap News reports: A South Korean court ordered on Sunday the operator of the country’s third most-visited Internet portal to pay out compensation to a user whose information was leaked during last month’s massive…
Category: Business Sector
Mibbit reveals blog & test servers compromised
Yesterday, the Mibbit blog posted: At approximately 3pm GMT today unauthorised access was detected to the server which runs our Blog. In response to this we shut it down and began investigating. Later today at around 8pm GMT we shutdown our IRC services after it became clear that several pieces of backed up data had…
Bethesda Forums Hacked; All Passwords Reset
Seen on Capsule Computers: And Lightning Strikes twice. After having their main website hacked back in June [previous coverage on DataBreaches.net can be found here], Bethesda have now sent out a new email to all forum users, informing of a security breach. No guilty parties were mentioned this time around, and as of now it…
Reznick Group Notified of Potential Security Breach At Former Employee Benefits Service Provider, AssureCare Risk Management
Reznick Group, a top 20 national CPA firm, today announced that it has been informed by AssureCare Risk Management, Inc. (“ARM”), the former service provider of Reznick Group’s employee benefits plan from 2001-2006, that ARM has suffered a security breach of its computer server that may affect former and current Reznick Group employees and their…
VA: Amherst store owner reacts to becoming victim of international hacking
Hmmm… one I missed in April, it seems. Justin Ward reports: It’s a practice many of us do daily: use our credit card. Now dozens of people at one Amherst County store are discovering they’re victims of credit card theft. The computer system at Country Corner Market was hacked, compromising the information of 125 customers. …
Former waiter charged with stealing credit card numbers
Ruben Castaneda reports: A former waiter at a TGI Fridays restaurant in Laurel was indicted Thursday on charges he copied and sold the numbers of 73 credit cards, Prince George’s authorities said. Brian K. Adams, 21, of Elkridge, was indicted on 16 charges, including theft, identity theft, and conspiracy to commit theft, State’s Attorney Angela…