Ben Quinn and Miles Brignall report: A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Northern Ireland in connection with the cyber-attack on TalkTalk’s website. The arrest is the first major development since the phone and broadband provider said last week it had been hacked, prompting warnings from the company that the bank details and personal information of its four…
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UK: Experian rules out GOV.UK Verify changes after T-mobile data breach
Neil Merrett reports: Experian has opted against making any immediate changes to the service it offers as a contracted identity provider for GOV.UK Verify following an unrelated data breach last month of one of its servers that contained some identifying information of T-Mobile customers in the US. Experian is among five companies currently accredited to…
The Guardian Email Gaffe Exposes Email Addresses of 501 App Beta Testers
Oops. The Guardian was forced to apologize this morning after it inadvertently exposed the email addresses of 501 people (including myself) who volunteered to beta test an upcoming version of the publication’s iOS app. The email addresses were located in the “to” field of the email announcing the beta test instead of the more appropriate “BCC”…
Anonymous Targets Thai Govt, Leaks Data from State-owned Telecom Firm
Waqas writes: Anonymous, the world famous hacktivist group, has now declared war on the Thai government due to its implementation of single internet gateway consolidation policy. CAT Telecom Pcl, the premier telecommunication website of Thailand, became the first target of Anonymous’ rage. […] Anonymous claims that the group managed to steal confidential details about the…
Noble House Identifies, Discloses Payment Card Security Incident
Noble House Hotels and Resorts was alerted to a potential issue after receiving calls from guests who had used a payment card at one of Noble House’s properties, The Commons Hotel Minneapolis, and then saw unauthorized charges on that card. Noble House immediately initiated an investigation and engaged a computer security firm to examine its payment system for any…
TalkTalk hacker ‘looking for money;’ ransom demand received
BBC reports: The head of TalkTalk says she has had an email demanding a ransom from a group purporting to be behind the cyber-attack suffered by the company. Chief executive Dido Harding said she did not know whether the ransom email was genuine. The phone and broadband provider said personal and banking details of up…