Pavel Alpeyev and Grace Huang report: Hackers who broke into Sony Corp.’s Hollywood unit probably spent months collecting passwords and mapping the network before they committed a last act of vandalism, setting off a virus that wiped out data and crashed the system in 10 minutes. Trend Micro Inc. arrived at these conclusions after running…
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North Korea Seeks Joint Investigation Into Sony Hack With U.S.
Ben Moshinsky reports: North Korea’s government said it had nothing to do with the hacking of Sony Corp.’s computer systems and called on the U.S. to hold a joint investigation into the incident. North Korea can prove its innocence and warned of “grave consequences” if the U.S. fails to take up its offer, the country’s…
PA: One Lincoln Restaurant customers’ data compromised by Backoff malware
The Gettysburg Times reports: Those who paid for meals at Gettysburg Hotel’s One Lincoln Restaurant using a credit card between June 2 and July 31 may have had their data compromised, according to a news release from the hotel. Delaware Business Systems, the hotel’s point-of-sale vendor, told the restaurant on Aug. 6 that the “Back-off” malicious…
Staples Provides Update on Data Security Incident: 1.6M potentially affected
From their press release: FRAMINGHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Staples, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS) today gave an update on the investigation into its previously announced data security incident involving a small percentage of its retail point-of-sale systems. Staples’ data security experts detected that criminals deployed malware to some point-of-sale systems at 115 of its more than 1,400 U.S. retail…
Hacked if you do, hacked if you don’t? I almost pity Sony.
Well, sure, this will help. NOT. Seen on Pastebin: MESSAGE TO CEO OF SONY – MICHAEL LYNTON I Dear Mr. Michael Lynton (CEO of Sony Entertainment), We shall first-off begin this message with an expression of sympathy as you have failed to release “The Interview” as you believe that hackers shall carry out a new…
Target Averts Most – But Not All – Claims Over Data Breach
Jack Bouboushian reports: A federal judge dismissed most consumer-negligence claims against Target for cybersecurity failures that resulted in a massive data breach last year. […] Magnuson dismissed the majority of those claims Thursday after finding that some consumers’ states do not permit the remedy they seek. While plaintiffs have shown that they suffered pecuniary damages…