Levi Sumagaysay writes: Spain has arrested three people in connection with hacking Sony’s PlayStation Network. According to the Wall Street Journal, Spanish police say the three are members of hacker group Anonymous, which has recently claimed responsibility for various attacks on companies such as MasterCard and Visa, as well as Sony. (Although Anonymous has said it was…
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UK: Codemasters.com hacked, personal info may have been acquired
Seen at http://m0unds.net/files/breach/codemasters.html via @m0unds: Subject: Important information regarding your account From: “Codemasters” Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:27:25 -0000 To: [email protected] On Friday 3rd June, unauthorised entry was gained to our Codemasters.com website. As soon as the intrusion was detected, we immediately took codemasters.com and associated web services offline in order to prevent any…
UK: Employees who stole T-Mobile customer data made to pay £73,700 for violating Data Protection Act
Two former employees of UK mobile operator T-Mobile who illegally stole and sold select customer data from the company in 2008 have today been ordered to pay a total of £73,700 in fines and confiscation costs as part of a hearing at Chester Crown Court. David Turley and Darren Hames pleaded guilty to offences under…
AU: Merchant under fire in bank data breach affair speaks out
Charis Palmer reports: After weeks of speculation surrounding the identity of ‘the merchant’ at the centre of May’s bank data breach which resulted in thousands of credit card cancellations, the head of online retailer Crazy Sales has moved to fend off rumours. No one can prove 100 per cent that it’s Crazy Sales, said David…
LexisNexis notifies New Hampshire that data obtained by client may have been misused
On May 9, LexisNexis notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that personal information accessed from their database by one of their clients may have been misused. From September 10, 2009 through March 2, 2011, Onyx Collections and Locators Services, Inc. in Atlanta had access to the database which contains information such as name, address,…
Sony Pictures updates consumer notice
From their site: June 8, 2011 – Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has provided notice to the approximately 37,500 people who may have had some personally identifiable information stolen during the recent attack on sonypictures.com. SPE did not request, and the stolen information did not include, any credit card information, social security numbers or driver license…