The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said in a statement Nexon reported to the commission late Friday afternoon that the company on Thursday discovered the leakage of personal data of its online game Maple Story’s 13.2 million subscribers. The information was leaked weeks before the unlisted company’s planned initial public offering of its Japanese affiliate on…
Category: Breach Incidents
cwn site updates and news nov2011
Hey all, once again cwn has gone through some changes to make the reading experience better for everyone. So far we have relocated to a new webhost, who i must say is absolutely awesome and they deserve a mention, so visit them now :). On top of that we have rebuilt our orginal newspaper theme…
Nexon Korea Corp’s Maple Story user database hacked; 13.2 million users told to change their passwords
Sung-won Shim reports for Reuters: … The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said in a statement Nexon reported to the commission late Friday afternoon that the company on Thursday discovered the leakage of personal data of its online game Maple Story‘s 13.2 million subscribers. […] KCC said it, jointly with police and computer security experts, is…
Skagit County Health Department information leaked on Internet
Tahlia Honea reports: Information about people using services at the Skagit County Health Department and other county departments was inadvertently leaked onto the Internet recently. In mid-September a student who had been given an assignment to Google her own name, discovered that some of her private information was on the Internet and alerted the Health…
dump of email accounts
just another dump of email accounts, comes from an unknown source with no reasons. the dump contains emails and clear text passwords. BE sure to use CTRL+F for quick search incase you have been compromised. https://pastebin.com/CB5pU6Ls
Yahoo takes Delhi home ministrys to the high courts
The Indian government has been trying in failed attempts to obtain information from search giant yahoo, the information they are after is thought to be IP address of so called terrorist and Islamic fighters. By law yahoo can not disclose this information but the government tends to think it can overrule anything and get it, well its about time we seen…