Matthew Finnegan reports: An external review of Bloomberg’s data policies and procedures has recommended stronger measures be put in place in order to ensure journalists are unable to view client information through its financial data terminals. Two separate reports were released by Bloomberg on Wednesday detailing investigations into corporate practices at the firms, following claims…
Category: Breach Incidents
Pizza Hut Spain and Malta Data Analyst
Analyst report for pizza hut spain and malta attack by Turkish Ajan hacker Group Package contents; Folder name: pizzahut.mt: two xls files file name: pizzahut_com.mt_users.xls size: 1.03MB file contents: mailing list users first, last names, email addresses. Dates back to 2007 to aug 2012, total 5152 file name: user.xls size: 195kb file contents: Client…
Fast food Giant Pizza hut Spain and Malta Hacked, Data leaked, Site Redirected
Today hackers from known hacker collective Turkish Ajan hacker group have posted data from the fast food giant Pizza hut. The leak was announced from the official Turkish Ajan hackers twitter account earlier in the day and as normal the data was posted to speedy share but has since been removed. The hackers have also…
TW: Local bank fined over online security breach
Stacy Wu and Jay Chen report: CTBC Bank, one of Taiwan’s top financial institutions, was fined NT$4 million (US$134,000) Thursday for accidentally leaking the personal information of some 33,000 of its e-banking customers. The error allowed the average Internet user to view confidential data, intended for CTBC Bank staff only, for an undisclosed period of…
San Francisco State College of Extended Learning reports breach; one of 500 entities breached
San Francisco State College of Extended Learning is notifying students that a server housing files with their personal information was compromised on March 25, 2013. The college learned of the breach on June 11, when it was notified by federal law enforcement that the server had been used by a group not affiliated with SF…
Investigators say Bow Valley College failed to protect vital info of nearly 200,000
Here’s a breach from almost one year ago that I had missed until this follow-up report. Michael Franklin reports: An investigator into a possible leak of personal information of nearly 200,000 Bow Valley students has found that the institution had indeed failed to protect that information. However, it also says that the school took reasonable…