While LulzSec has been making child’s play of Sony’s security, a blogger named Cameron Slater (WhaleOil) has been embarrassing the heck out of the National Labour Party in New Zealand. In the last two days, he has written more about their breach mentioned previously on this blog: Labour and their proxy bloggers have been telling a…
Category: Breach Incidents
The Ingenious Infiltration of Citigroup
John Hudson writes: An IT expert speaking with The New York Times called it a Mission Impossible-like operation. Last month, a team of unidentified hackers accessed information to 200,000 Citigroup bank accounts by simply waltzing through the “front door” of Citigroup’s customer website. The bank came under fire last week for waiting nearly a month before notifying customers…
Revealed: How Citigroup hackers broke in ‘through the front door’ using bank’s website
Lee Moran reports: Hackers who stole the personal details of more than 200,000 Citigroup customers ‘broke in through the front door’ using an extremely simple technique. It has been called ‘one of the most brazen bank hacking attacks’ in recent years. And for the first time it has been revealed how the sophisticated cyber criminals…
St. Louis University student information containing Social Security numbers found discarded in alley
Ann Rubin reports: Documents with the personal information of dozens of former St. Louis University students were littered near a dumpster in a back alley. How did they get there and why weren’t they shredded? The university is searching for answers. NewsChannel 5 received a tip Monday from someone who saw the paperwork discarded late…
OR: Portland-area debit card fraud could be related to Michaels PIN skimming
A rash of card fraud reports over the weekend in Beaverton, Oregon may be linked to the breach of some Michaels Stores. Brent Hunsberger reports: A number of Portland-area residents reported their debit cards either were compromised or canceled suddenly over the weekend, and Beaverton police said at least one case was related to a…
UK: Metro Bank in schoolboy email error snafu
John Leyden reports: Metro Bank, the newly established UK retail bank, has irked its customers with a schoolboy email error. The latest marketing missive from the bank was sent using all the email addresses in to To: field instead of using the bcc (blind carbon copy) field. In the process, the bank disclosed the email…