Vodafone has fired a number of employees following an investigation into security breaches on the weekend. Customer records were leaked after a password to the telco’s internet database was shared by a number of people. Since the incident, Vodafone says it has let employees go and contacted the New South Wales Police. Read more on…
Category: Business Sector
“Ugg Got Hacked: Sheepskin Boot Security Compromised Worldwide”
Well, no, that’s the headline on Racked, but what happened is the SilverPop breach we heard so much about last month. Racked has uploaded an image of UGG Australia’s notification to its customers, which names SilverPop and notes that customer information in the database included names, email addresses, and geographic information (city, country, zip code)….
CA: Two sentenced for gas station identity thefts
To follow up on a case previously covered on this blog in March and October, this report from Mark Anderson of the Sacramento Bee: A gang that used card readers to skim personal information at gas station card readers in Northern California was busted for identity theft, and two of the four were sentenced to…
Victim numbers continue to climb in EVG Quality breach
From today’s Los Angeles Times: Police have identified 380 victims of credit or debit card fraud at a Sierra Madre gas station with losses exceeding $109,000, Police Chief Marilyn Diaz said Monday. […] “The fraudulent charges arising from credit and debit cards used at the EVG station are showing up both as EVG charges and…
ESRB unintentionally exposes email addresses of people who filed complaints over Blizzard’s Real ID system
Gregg Reece writes about a reply-all gaffe exposing almost 1,000 individuals’ email addresses: During the recent Real ID catastrophe on the forums, many players decided to appeal to an industry source that might have been able to sway Blizzard to change its mind. These players contacted the ESRB (Entertainment Software Rating Board) as a Better Business Bureau-type…
Vodafone denies customer records publicly available on Internet – while seemingly acknowledging a breach
In response to allegations published yesterday of a serious security breach that may have left millions of Vodafone customers’ personal details and credit card information at risk, Vodafone announced that it is investigating the allegations but denies that customer records are publicly available on the Internet: The AAP also reports: The mobile phone company has…