Nicole Kobie reports: Gambling website Betfair has admitted its systems were attacked 18 months ago, but says it didn’t warn customers on the advice of UK police. The gambling company was hacked in March 2010, according to a report leaked to The Telegraph, but Betfair didn’t notice the attack until six days later. The report said…
Category: Business Sector
Sony did not breach Australian Privacy law, says Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim
Chris Griffith reports: SONY Computer Entertainment Australia did not breach the Privacy Act when it fell victim to a cyber-attack, Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has found. In a report released this afternoon, Mr Pilgrim found “no evidence that Sony intentionally disclosed any personal information to a third party”. “Rather, its Network Platform was hacked into,”…
TRICARE discloses SAIC breach: stolen backup tapes held data on 4.9 million (updated)
TRICARE, the health care program serving Uniformed Service members, retirees and their families worldwide, issued the following public statement on their web site: STATEMENT On September 14, 2011, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) reported a data breach involving personally identifiable and protected health information (PII/PHI) impacting an estimated 4.9 million military clinic and hospital patients. The information…
UKChatterbox urges password change following hack attack
John Leyden reports: Popular IRC service UKChatterbox is advising users to change their passwords following a series of hacks which culminated in an attack that may have compromised user details. The password reset follows on from a succession of outages – previously attributed to maintenance upgrades – dating back to the start of the summer. In a notice to…
Yet another former employee of Electronic Data Systems convicted for participation in ID theft and tax fraud conspiracy
The other day I posted information on an insider breach at Electronic Data Systems that had pretty much flown under the media radar. Today, I came across this subsequent press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama that names yet another Electronic Data Systems employee who appears to have been…
Some retirees’ personal information lost in mail
Associated Press reports: The personal information of thousands of U.S. Steel Mining retirees and their dependents has been lost in the mail. Benefits Administration Services said Friday that a password-protected CD it had put in the mail in August never reached its destination. BAS is a provider of benefits administration services for the United States…