Carly Page reports: California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) has revealed a data breach that exposed the Social Security numbers of more than 100,000 current and former employees. The U.S. pizza chain, which has more than 250 locations across 32 states, confirmed the incident in a data breach notification posted this week. The company said it learned of a…
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Indonesia probe police hack in latest cyber breach
Stanley Widianto reports: Indonesian police are investigating claims by a hacker who said this week they have stolen personal data of thousands of police officers, the latest in a spate of cyber attacks that has highlighted the country’s digital vulnerabilities. Using a now suspended Twitter handle, a hacker who said they were from Brazil claimed…
Tr: MNG Kargo Hacked: User Information Stolen
Michael Lewis reports: MNG Cargo, which has a wide transportation network in our country, announced that some of its corporate customers were attacked by cyber attacks as a result of their user names and passwords being seized. Notifying the Personal Data Protection Authority, the company announced that the names, surnames, addresses and phone numbers of…
Complaining about Canada’s alleged failure to extradite someone makes no sense when there’s no request to extradite
Yesterday, DataBreaches.net reported on a hoax email sent from a government system by an individual who calls himself “Pompompurin” on Twitter (@Pompompur_in). Pompompurin had immediately claimed responsibility for the incident and gave out interviews left and right. Despite Pompompurin taking responsibility for the hoax email, Vinny Troia of NightLion Security and ShadowByte immediately claimed that…
More Accusations About a Canadian Hacker in the Wake of a Hoax Email from FBI Portal
The email in my inbox on Friday night had the subject line, “Hey sexy,” and appeared to come from “[email protected]” <[email protected]>. Under normal circumstances, I would have just sent it to trash, but the Twitter user known to me as “Pompompurin,” had alerted me to check my email for what he described as a funny…
Data of 5.9m customers of RedDoorz hotel booking site leaked in Singapore’s largest data breach
Kenny Chee reports: The personal data of nearly 5.9 million Singaporean and South-east Asian customers of hotel booking site RedDoorz was found to have been leaked, in what the Government has called Singapore’s largest data breach. The Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) has fined local firm Commeasure, which operates the website, $74,000. This is much…