Huh Sung-soo reports: A lack of security on Asiana Airlines’ website exposed the sensitive information of its passengers. […] Asiana Airlines released a statement that there was an exposure of the universal resource locator (URL) for those attached files within contents they uploaded on the frequently asked questions (FAQ) of its Internet bulletin board by some…
Category: Breach Incidents
Will Armscor hack result in any fallout?
So maybe I should have reported on this one sooner, but after I saw some initial denials, I didn’t think it was going to be a big deal. It may be a bit bigger than I thought. On July 11, HackRead reported: The operation OpAfrica has found another victim, this time, it’s the Pretoria-based arms procurement agency Armscor Armaments Corporation…
PoodleCorp Downs PokemonGo, People go Depressed
Updated at bottom to reflect Pokemongo servers upgrade. Well it didn’t take to long, PokemonGo servers have come direct attack from PoodleCorp and as a result have been suffering some downtime. It all started about 11PM EST Australia time, when PoodleCorp member XO, tweeted out "can anyone verify for us if PokemonGo is online or…
Noted while reading news…
Reuters reports Scottrade won dismissal of the class action lawsuit against it over the breach disclosed last year. Some of the previous coverage on the breach and lawsuit can be found on my site, here. *** Mille Lacs County Times reports that the county and former child support investigator Mikki Jo Peterick have agreed to a…
KR: Credit card companies fined over customer data protection failures
For the past few years, I’ve covered the consequences Kookmin, NongHyup, and Lotte Card have faced after cardholders’ information was stolen by an contractor’s employee over an 18-month period from 2012 to 2013. I continue to be impressed that even though some of the fines or consequences haven’t been huge by our standards, there have been consequences to both the…
FL: Former Insurance Co. Employee Sentenced For Identity Theft (UPDATED)
CBS reports: A former health insurance company employee was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for stealing more than 50 customer identities from her former job. Quinzella Romer, 39, previously pled guilty to one count of possession of fifteen or more unauthorized access devices, in this case social security numbers which had been issued…