Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. was aware in late April of the massive scale of the data breach involving its PlayStation Network services but only announced that some information may have been leaked, Kyodo News reported Thursday, citing a document released by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. […] The document dated May 6 contains…
Category: Business Sector
Important Information for BioWare & EA Account Holders
Posted at http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/6/index/7653193: Yesterday (June 14), we learned that a hacker gained unauthorized access to the decade-old BioWare community server system associated with the Neverwinter Nights forums. We immediately took appropriate steps to protect our consumers’ data and launched an ongoing evaluation of the seriousness of the breach. We have determined that no credit card…
ADP Statement on Security Breach Investigation
Automatic Data Processing, Inc., today announced that it is investigating and taking measures to address the impact of a system intrusion that occurred with one client at Workscape, a recently acquired benefits administration provider. The intrusion, which occurred on a non-payroll legacy platform that is no longer sold by ADP’s benefits administration business, was detected…
(follow-up) Texas man sentenced for hacking into computer servers of local company and NASA
Yesterday in federal court in St. Paul, Minnesota, a 26-year-old Texas man was sentenced for hacking into computer networks at a Minnesota business and at NASA. U.S. District Court Judge Richard H. Kyle sentenced Jeremey Parker, of Houston, Texas, to 24 months in prison on one count of wire fraud. He was indicted in the…
Email error results in some Jackson National Life Insurance members being notified
Jackson National Life Insurance recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that on April 12, 2011, an email error resulted in a file being mailed to the wrong broker-deal. The file contained March 2011 data, including names, policy numbers, policy values, transaction dates, and amounts. The file did not include any Social Security numbers…
Bethesda Softworks hacked, personal data ‘stolen’
Bethesda has revealed that its website was hacked over the weekend. Personal data, such as user names, email addresses and passwords, may have been taken in the attack. Credit card and personal financial information was stressed to have not been compromised. “Over the past weekend, a hacker group attempted an unlawful intrusion of our websites…