Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: Things could be about to go from bad to worse for Sony. Having been allegedly hacked by a crew going by the name of Guardians of Peace (GOP) and an alleged 27GB of data chucked on numerous peer-to-peer file sharing networks, it’s now emerged PlayStation Network web servers are being used to hand out…
Category: Business Sector
Target fails to end banks’ lawsuit over data breach
Jonathan Stempel reports: A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Target Corp’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit by banks seeking to recoup money they spent reimbursing fraudulent charges and issuing new credit and debit cards because of the retailer’s late 2013 data breach. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson in St. Paul, Minnesota said Target played a…
Iran-backed hackers targeted airlines, energy firms: report
Jim Finkle reports: Iranian hackers have infiltrated some of the world’s top energy, transport and infrastructure companies over the past two years in a campaign that could allow them to eventually cause physical damage, according to U.S. cyber security firm Cylance. Read more on Reuters. UPDATE and CORRECTION: Reuters later changed their headline from “Iran…
American Residuals and Talent (ART Payroll) notifying employees of hack
Oregon-based American Residuals and Talent, Inc. (“ART”) (ART Payroll) is notifying former and current clients’ employees of a data breach. Emily Erskine, President of ART, writes: On October 18, 2014, we detected an unauthorized login onto our web application. We worked immediately to contain the unauthorized access and prevent it from happening again. The unauthorized…
Sony Breach May Have Exposed Employee Healthcare, Salary Data
Brian Krebs reports: The recent hacker break-in at Sony Pictures Entertainment appears to have involved the theft of far more than unreleased motion pictures: According to multiple sources, the intruders also stole more than 25 gigabytes of sensitive data on tens of thousands of Sony employees, including Social Security numbers, medical and salary information. Several files being…
UK: Morrisons auditor denies data fraud
ITV has an update on a previously reported breach: A Morrisons employee has denied abusing his position to fraudulently disclose personal data at the Bradford-based supermarket firm. Andrew Skelton, a senior internal auditor, denied charges under the Computer Misuse Act, the Data Protection Act and the Fraud Act. Skelton, 43, from Liverpool, was charged with…