Kelley Shannon provides an update on one of the biggest breaches in 2011: The taxpayer tab for individual credit monitoring after a data breach in Comptroller Susan Combs’ office has topped $600,000, and Combs’ campaign is paying extra to resolve routine credit glitches in some cases. Though investigations continue into the data exposure revealed in…
Category: Breach Incidents
TicketWeb security breached by fake Adobe scammers
Carrie-Ann Skinner reports: TicketWeb has suffered a security breach which saw emails containing malicious links purporting to be from Adobe sent to its customers. On February 11 customers of the British ticketing site reported receiving up to four emails all with the subject ‘Action Required: Update Your PDF Application’. The email claimed that the recipient’s…
UK: Croydon and Norfolk County councils fined by ICO for data breaches
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served monetary penalties totalling £180,000 to two councils for failing to keep highly sensitive information about the welfare of children secure. Croydon Council has been handed a penalty of £100,000 after a bag containing papers relating to the care of a child sex abuse victim was stolen from a…
T-mobile Hacked Again and Data leaked with more to come from @Chriss10011
content/images/gallery/random3/t-mobile-big-dance-leaked-pastebin-com_.png @Chriss10011 has hacked and leaked data from t-mobile. Now its not the first time this year we have seen them hacked and im sure it wont be the last time either. This time the website that was hacked is The Big Dance website. This time its resulted in so far said to be "the secret…
Microsoft Store hacked in India, passwords stored in plain text
Sean Buckley reports: Frequenters of India’s online Microsoft Store were briefly greeted with the suspicious visage of a Guy Fawkes mask this morning, following a hack that compromised the site’s user database. According toWPSauce, Microsoft Store India’s landing page was briefly taken over by a hacker group called Evil Shadow Team, who, in addition to putting a…
Hacker Says He Compromised Intel, Gained Private Info
Kevin Parrish reports: A hacker using the pseudonyms “Weedgrower” and “X-pOSed” is claiming that he compromised Intel and obtained sensitive data by using a flaw in the subscriber segment of Intel’s web site. With access to the Intel.com database, the hacker claims he can retrieve sensitive information like credit card numbers, social security numbers, email…