Tom Reeve reports: Citrix, a US software company specialising in virtualisation and cloud computing, has reportedly been compromised by a Russian hacker called w0rm. w0rm is infamous for several attacks over the past five years on a number of high profile targets including the BBC, CNET, Adobe and Bank of America. The identity of the…
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MaineGeneral breach update: investigation revealed additional PHI compromised
There’s an update to a breach reported by MaineGeneral Health in December after the FBI alerted them in November that information had been found on an external web site. At the time of their December notification, MG had noted that the scope of the incident was still under investigation. Today, they issued a press release with…
Thai justice system hacked by Blink Hacker Group; personal info dumped
It appears that Anonymous is not quite done going after the Thai justice system with its #BoycottThailand campaign. Recent attacks on almost 300 government sites have been in response to the conviction of two migrant workers in the murder of two British backpackers, David Miller and Hannah Witheridge – a conviction that Anonymous finds totally unjust. Not only has Anonymous defaced government sites,…
JB Autosports customers notified of payment card breach
Jeremy Boysen, President of JB Autosports, Inc is notifying customers who used the subispeed.com and ft86speedfactory.com sites between August 1, 2015 through November 9, 2015, that their payment card data was intercepted during transmission and acquired by an unknown party at a Russian IP address. The breach allowed cyberattackers to intercept customer names, addresses, credit…
Details of 18000 Faithless fans have been stolen in a website hack
Patrick Hinton reports: 18,000 Faithless fans have had their personal details stolen after the dance group’s website was subject to a cyber-attack from hackers. The site’s defences were breached after a piece of malware was uploaded using a technique called an SQL injection, and now the illegally acquired data, including users’ personal e-mail addresses and…
JP: Personal data of 112,000 may have leaked from Hokkaido University
Kyodo News reports: Hokkaido University said Wednesday that personal data of more than 110,000 students and graduates may have been leaked due to unauthorized access of its computer systems by unknown parties. The university believes a server at its career placement service center is likely to have been unlawfully accessed. The server contains personal data,…