Ernesto writes that a recent hack of The Pirate Bay may be linked to some recent spam users have been receiving: Two months ago a group of Argentinian hackers successfully gained access to The Pirate Bay’s admin panel through a security breach. At the time, the hackers stated that they didn’t want to exploit the vulnerability,…
Category: Breach Incidents
37 Charged in Global Bank Fraud Schemes that Used “Zeus Trojan” and Other Malware to Steal Millions of Dollars from U.S. Bank Accounts
Charges have been filed in New York against 37 defendants, in 21 separate cases, for their roles in global bank fraud schemes that allegedly used hundreds of false-name bank accounts to steal over $3 million from dozens of U.S. accounts that were compromised by malware attacks. According to Complaints unsealed today in Manhattan federal court,…
UK: BT embroiled in ACS:Law porn list breach
Daniel Emery reports: BT has admitted it sent the personal details of more than 500 customers as an unsecured document to legal firm ACS:Law, following a court order. The news could put BT in breach of the Data Protection Act, which requires firms to keep customers’ data secure at all times. The e-mails emerged following…
OSU calls breaches of data minor
Encarnacion Pyle follows up on a recent student news story that Ohio State University has about 10 breaches per year with some additional details: […] Ohio State has checked into six possible cases in the past year and found four minor breaches in which the names and Social Security numbers of employees or current and former…
ICO issues a terse statement about ACS:Law
The following press release was issued today by the Information Commissioner’s Office: 29 September 2010 ACS:Law – Data breach A spokesperson for the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said: “The ICO takes all breaches of the Data Protection Act very seriously. Any organisation processing personal data must ensure that it is kept safe and secure. This…
Alabama regulator probing release of Morgan Keegan client data
Roy L. Williams reports: Alabama Securities Commission chief Joe Borg said he will release the findings of an internal investigation into how someone in his office mistakenly gave a Birmingham trial lawyer a computer disk containing confidential information on 18,500 clients of Morgan Keegan & Co. […] Borg’s office mistakenly sent Campbell a disk that…