On June 9, Chester Wisniewski wrote (but I missed): The same Lebanese hacker who targeted Sony Europe on Friday has now dumped a database from Sony Portugal. The hacker claims to be a grey hat, not a black hat, according to his post to pastebin.com. “I am not a black hat to dump all the…
Category: Business Sector
Centaur website reveals guests’ personal info
Shilpa Phadnis reports: The Centaur Hotels’ website, centaurhotels.com, appears to have compromised personal information of its hotel guests, in what seems to be a case of poor internet security protocols implemented by the site. This allowed website visitors on Saturday to obtain and view details of passports, driving licences, pan numbers, credit cards, and other…
More details emerging on SEGA Pass hack
AFP has more on breach first disclosed by SEGA on Friday: Hackers have stolen the personal data of some 1.29 million customers of the Japanese game maker Sega, the company said on Sunday, in a theft via a website of its European unit. The Sega Pass website, operated by London-based Sega Europe, did not contain…
Man Charged With $1 Million Extortion Hack at ODesk
Robert McMillan has more on the oDesk breach/extortion attempt I mentioned yesterday on this blog. Significantly, Bob reports: On Friday, oDesk said no user information had been compromised by the hack. “We will continue to work with law enforcement to ensure that the person who unlawfully accessed our domain registry in 2009 is held accountable…
Sega Pass Database Hacked, Account Information Compromised (update – LulzSec not responsible)
Sebastian Moss writes: Only moments ago, Sega sent out an email to their Sega Pass users informing them of the hack: Dear ___, As you may be aware, the SEGA Pass system has been offline since yesterday, Thursday 16 June. Over the last 24 hours we have identified that unauthorised entry was gained to our…
San Jose federal grand jury indicts alleged computer hacker (updated)
Howard Mintz reports: A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted an alleged computer hacker who is accused of trying to extort $1 million from a Redwood City-based online company by stealing its private data and threatening to release it publicly. In a three-count indictment handed up in San Jose federal court, prosecutors allege Chetan Suresh…