BET24.com responded to an e-mail inquiry I sent them about their recent breach disclosure. Their response did not actually answer all of my questions (no surprise there), but did confirm that they knew about the breach in December 2009. Here is there statement to DataBreaches.net: Thanks for your mail about the security breach, a case…
Category: Breach Incidents
Man sentenced in Sacramento for massive ID theft scheme
A Long Beach man accused of conducting a massive identity theft scheme was sentenced today in federal court in Sacramento to more than 12 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. sentenced That Tien Truong Nguyen, 34, to 12 years and seven months in prison for conspiring to commit computer fraud and…
Hard drive with students’ addresses, grades vanishes (updated)
Lisa Gartner reports: An external hard drive containing personal information on as many as 1,234 Prince William County elementary school students has disappeared, prompting investigations by the school system and the police department. The hardware housed names and addresses of Glenkirk Elementary students, as well as the names of their classroom teachers. It also stored…
Ru: Internet Shopping Data Compromised
First it was Megafon leaking SMS history and having it indexed on Yandex’s search engine. Now there’s a bigger breach. Natalya Krainova of The Moscow Times reports: A third Internet leak in just a week has exposed the private shopping habits of people at more than 80 online stores, including those selling model cars, perfume…
AU: Westpac cans cards as AFP investigates breaches
Luke Hopewell reports: Westpac has this week confirmed that it has canned the cards of an undisclosed number of customers following a fresh merchant data breach. The breach comes as the Australian Federal Police (AFP) opens a new investigation into recent merchant data compromises. Westpac told ZDNet Australia this week that merchant data breaches are…
OpPayPal, day two the effects
Well still going flat out strong Anonymous Operation PayPal is doing damage, with word of over 35k accounts deleted(from the word on twitter) this is a peaceful protest so its really amazing how much attention the world is giving to this. First of all if you do not know what its about, Read here, and check here…