From NYSEG: New York State Electric & Gas (NYSEG) and Rochester Gas and Electric (RG&E), subsidiaries of Iberdrola USA, today began sending precautionary notifications to customers advising them of unauthorized access to customer data. This situation involves an employee at an independent software development consulting firm (contracted by NYSEG and RG&E) who allowed unauthorized access…
Category: Breach Incidents
Euronet faces first criminal computer breach of secure payment data
Alyson Raletz reports: Euronet Worldwide Inc., a Leawood company that provides secure payment services, has reported a criminal computer security breach. Euronet (Nasdaq: EEFT) said the breach targeted a “small portion” of its European business in late 2011, according a Monday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Read more on Kansas City Business Journal.
(Update) Attorneys General Seek Info about Zappos breach
Concerned about a recent hacking attack that may have affected more than 24 million customers, Attorney General George Jepsen, with support from nine other states, has asked Zappos.com, Inc. about its efforts to protect private customer information and its response to the breach. The Attorney General wrote to the chief executive officer of the on-line…
(Follow-up) Agreement Reached With Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Over Release of Some Customers’ Personally Identifiable Information
Attorney General George Jepsen and Consumer Protection Commissioner William Rubenstein have reached an agreement with Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. to provide additional protections to the current and former customers whose personal information was made public. Information of current and former MetLife customers was part of a spreadsheet posted to the Internet by an employee of…
3,000 “Saudi’s” Details leaked by 0xOmar
Now, not 100% sure if this is the same 0xOmar as before but a pastebin paste Well i better fix that, sorry for the misinformation (no excuses i should get it right the first time) Last night i published this with the above crossed out line which was wrong, this attack has been carried out by An…
More hackers leak “Israeli” Accounts in middle east cyber war
The middle east cyber war has grown to a constant pace recently with new leaks every day, some times a few leaks a day. The most recent leak which was not so long ago is by "Virus Kiss" and contains 185 valid accounts. Has been breached on the accounts of some of the Zionists and…