Sudan Tribune reports: South Sudan has vowed not to expel any member of Huawei, a Chinese technological company it accused of allegedly forging documents on behalf of its information minister. This comes a day after the country’s authorities ordered an investigation into allegations that Huawei had hacked its systems. Read more on Sudan Tribune.
Category: Hack
MN: Big Deals Media tells users to change passwords following hack
KEYC reports that Big Deals Media has e-mailed its users to alert them that their information may be in the hands of hackers. Big Deals says hackers could have gotten ahold of customer names, email addresses and account passwords, but unlike other breaches affecting companies across the country, they didn’t access financial information. Read more on KEYC.
Saudi hacker claims to have leaked Israeli gift store customer data online
Waqas writes: A Saudi hacker going with the handle of @security_511 / on Twitter has claimed to hack a private online Israeli gift store and leak credit card details of customers on the web. After scanning the data, we have found out full usernames of credit/debit card owners with their phone numbers, addresses, date of birth, card type, card numbers, expiration date and…
South Korean Internet Regulator Confirms Data Breach at Popular Video Sharing Site
James Lim reports: Pandora TV Co. Ltd., the South Korea-based operator of the country’s biggest video sharing website, lost 114,707 pieces of personal information during two confirmed intrusions in September, an official at the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) told Bloomberg BNA Oct. 22. “Based on what we have found so far, 7.4 million pieces of…
Will this lesson be learned?
When I saw the headline, “Class action lawsuit seeks to send message about the importance of safeguarding data,” I thought, “Oh, puhleese, how many times are we going to claim we’re just trying to send a message? Why haven’t they gotten it already?” But then I kept reading a news story by Joel Griffin, and…
Massachusetts Man Sentenced To 21 Months In Prison For Role In Multimillion-Dollar International Cybercrime Scheme
There’s an update to a case previously noted on this blog. A member of an international cybercrime, identity theft and credit card fraud conspiracy was sentenced yesterday to 21 months in prison for using information hacked from customer accounts held at more than a dozen banks, brokerage firms, payroll processing companies and government agencies in an attempt…