Jessica Herrera-Flanigan reports: Continuing the trend in recent weeks of high-profile sites being attacked, the open source blog program WordPress announced that it was hacked on Wednesday and the hackers potentially made off with “anything.” In a note posted on the WordPress webblog, founder Matt Mullenweg stated “Tough note to communicate today: Automattic had a…
Category: Business Sector
Sens. Franken, Blumenthal Ask Justice Department to Clarify, Enforce Data Privacy Law
Yesterday, U.S. Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) asked the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to clarify its interpretation of a critical federal law that protects the private and personal data of Americans. Recently, servers owned by Epsilon Data Management were hacked, exposing the names and e-mail addresses of millions of American consumers….
Data breach notification fatigue: Do consumers (eventually) tune out?
George V. Hulme writes: Earlier this month more than 50 companies were involved in a massive heist of names and email addresses from Epsilon Interactive. With millions of customers of companies such as Best Buy, Brookestone, Dell, Marriott and many others affected, the question is being raised: are so many breach notifications from so many…
FR: Hacker arrested after TV brag
From the unchecked-ego dept. Hundreds of bank card details have been found at the home of a computer hacker who boasted on TV of how he could break into the systems of the army and aerospace group Thalès. Thalès pressed charges after the program Complément d’enquête on France 2 showed the man breaking into their…
Hacker breaks into Barracuda Networks database
Robert McMillan reports: A hacker has broken into a Barracuda Networks database and obtained names and e-mail addresses of some of the security company’s employees, channel partners and sales leads. The hacker, who called himself Fdf, posted proof of his attack to the Web on Monday, showing e-mail addresses of company employees and names, e-mail addresses,…
Hyundai Capital in South Korea to notify 420,000 customers of data breach; Financial watchdog opens investigation
Ju-min Park of Reuters reports: South Korea’s financial watchdog launched an investigation on Monday into the leak of personal information from South Korea’s Hyundai Capital, the consumer finance unit of Hyundai Motor Group, a Financial Supervisory Service official said. Hyundai Capital said personal information on about 420,000 of its 1.8 million customers was leaked when…