RTÉ reports: Two telecoms companies have pleaded guilty to multiple breaches of data protection legislation at the Dublin District Court and have been ordered to pay a total of €30,000 to two charities. The charges follow the theft of two unencrypted laptops, containing personal and financial information of customers, from the office of Eircom Ltd…
Category: Breach Incidents
Domino’s India hacked, 37,000 user details leaked
One of the worlds largest fast food pizza company’s has been hacked in its Indian based division. The attack has been carried out by Maxney authorities Turkish Ajan Hacker Group and was uploaded to pastebin in 8 parts. The leak contains over 37,000 account details from the dominos.co.in website which also allows access to other domains internal based websites for administration only. These websites have been…
SMS Dakia & ITChowk Hacked, Data leaked by @0x00x00
A Website that offers SMS and other IT based services, SMS Dakia ( www.smsdakia.com ) has been hacked as well as a IT Forum that is dedicated to teaching IT to others in the Urda language ( www.itchowk.com ). The was just announced a short time ago via twitter from @0x00x00. The SMS Dakia leak was uploaded to drop-box in…
Pakistani Forums Hacked. Data leaked by @0x00x00
Hacktivist @0x00x00 has been on a mission over the past few weeks. After coming out of know where @0x00x00 has been on a rampage of attacks, some of which have been high profile. The most recent spree of attacks is towards some Pakistani based forums. The two forums that have been attacked are pak-forum.com and pakistani-forum.net which appear to be one in the…
Guild Wars 2 officials say ongoing password attack affects 11,000 accounts
Dan Goodin reports: Password crackers have hacked more than 11,000 accounts belonging to players of the popular game Guild Wars 2, in part by using credentials siphoned from an unknown fan site that was recently compromised, game officials said. Officials with Guild Wars 2 developer ArenaNet recently began the practice of proactively e-mailing customers when someone logs into an account…
Wyndham files motion to dismiss FTC privacy suit
Stephen E Wieker and Liisa M. Thomas write: In a strongly-worded motion filed in federal district court in Arizona, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts LLC recently asked the court to dismiss all charges filed by the Federal Trade Commission alleging Wyndham engaged in unfair and deceptive privacy practices. As we reported in June, according to the FTC, these practices…